From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758710AbYDBQj2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Apr 2008 12:39:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755108AbYDBQjV (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Apr 2008 12:39:21 -0400 Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]:50169 "EHLO agminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755504AbYDBQjU (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Apr 2008 12:39:20 -0400 Message-ID: <47F3C469.1020803@oracle.com> Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:37:45 -0500 From: Richard Frank User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen)" CC: "Roland Dreier (rdreier)" , rds-devel@oss.oracle.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, general@lists.openfabrics.org Subject: Re: [ofa-general] InfiniBand/iWARP/RDMA merge plans for 2.6.26 (what'sin infiniband.git) References: <1207120932.4593.47.camel@localhost.localdomain> <47F3BE33.4000204@oracle.com> <47F3C137.3070209@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I believe there is a patch for NetPerf which supports RDS - although it may need to be updated - and submitted. The only prior discussion I can think of - was whether or not NetPerf exercises RDS as Oracle would. I'm not proposing that we should enhance NetPerf to do that (but that's OK with me). We created a tool rds-stress which does that. Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen) wrote: >> WRT to merging RDS into the kernel - our current plans are to wait to >> see RDS adopted by more than Oracle - before approaching the kernel >> community about inclusion of RDS. >> > > I've seen statements before from someone from Oracle that RDS was only > for Oracle's use, for example, that person did not want netperf changed > to support RDS. > > Scott Weitzenkamp > SQA and Release Manager > Data Center Access Engineering > Cisco Systems >