From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: Linux support for RDMA (was: [Ksummit-2005-discuss] Summary of 2005 Kernel Summit Proposed Topics) Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 15:43:48 -0800 Message-ID: <20050401154348.553f3c46@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net> References: <1112321619.424cae539e75e@imap.linux.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Roland Dreier , Benjamin LaHaise , Dmitry Yusupov , open-iscsi@googlegroups.com, "David S. Miller" , mpm@selenic.com, andrea@suse.de, michaelc@cs.wisc.edu, James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, ksummit-2005-discuss@thunk.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com, bmt@zurich.ibm.com Return-path: To: jaganav@us.ibm.com In-Reply-To: <1112321619.424cae539e75e@imap.linux.ibm.com> Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 21:13:39 -0500 jaganav@us.ibm.com wrote: > Quoting Roland Dreier : > > I have to admit I don't know much about the TOE / RDMA/TCP / RNIC (or > > whatever you want to call it) world. However I know that the large > > majority of InfiniBand use right now is running on Linux, and I hope > > the Linux community is willing to work with the IB community. > > > > Just want to let everyone know know that we have started an opensource > effort (www.openrdma.org) for enablement of RNICs (RDMA enabled NICs). This > community has now come up with an architecture > (http://rdma.sourceforge.net/architecture.pdf) to build this support in Linux. > Would really appreciate if you review and provide any comments. We have just > started to hack but no code is available on this project yet. > > Thanks > Venkat OpenRdma is a misnomer, because as I read your architecture you are trying to create a "kernel abstraction layer" for closed source vendor RDMA drivers. This will never be accepted, please go back to the drawing board and figure out how to make real open source drivers.