Mike Snitzer wrote: > On 2/2/07, Chuck Lever wrote: >> Roland Dreier wrote: >> > > They are mostly from Chuck Level and make preparating for IPv6 >> support >> > > in the NFS server. >> > > They are *not* for 2.6.20, but should be ok for .21. >> > >> > Out of curiousity, does this patch series reduce the delta between the >> > NFS/RDMA tree and mainline Linux? In other words does this bring >> > NFS/RDMA closer to merging? >> >> Hi Roland- >> >> The client side support for an RPC/RDMA module is almost completely >> integrated into mainline. There is still a minimal set of patches >> required to support alternate transports in loadable kernel modules >> which Trond has indicated he will integrate when the RPC/RDMA transport >> is ready to be integrated. > > Hi Chuck, > > I must be missing something because I don't see _any_ trace of the > core RPC over RDMA support (xprtrdma et al), your RPC Transport > Switch, or any of the other supporting changes in mainline. Could > you, or others, please clarify the plan for merging RPC/RDMA? The RPC transport switch patches are almost fully integrated into mainline. The xprtrdma piece is what is not there yet. >> At this time I'm not aware of a plan to integrate server-side support >> for NFS/RDMA. Perhaps the NetApp RDMA developers could respond. > > Do you mean the NFS/RDMA server code from Tom Tucker of Open Grid > Computing? Why wouldn't this code be included? Tom's code hasn't been reviewed by the community.