Re: NVMe over Fabrics RDMA transport drivers

Sagi Grimberg
2016-06-07T11:57:17Z

We forgot to CC Linux-rdma, CC'ing...

On 07/06/16 00:23, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> This patch set implements the NVMe over Fabrics RDMA host and the target
> drivers.
>
> The host driver is tied into the NVMe host stack and implements the RDMA
> transport under the NVMe core and Fabrics modules. The NVMe over Fabrics
> RDMA host module is responsible for establishing a connection against a
> given target/controller, RDMA event handling and data-plane command
> processing.
>
> The target driver hooks into the NVMe target core stack and implements
> the RDMA transport. The module is responsible for RDMA connection
> establishment, RDMA event handling and data-plane RDMA commands
> processing.
>
> RDMA connection establishment is done using RDMA/CM and IP resolution.
> The data-plane command sequence follows the classic storage model where
> the target pushes/pulls the data.
>
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