From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: RDMA will be reverted Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 13:53:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20060629.135310.74748885.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1151611866.11739.57.camel@trinity.ogc.int> <20060629.131938.55726619.davem@davemloft.net> <1151614033.11739.82.camel@trinity.ogc.int> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: rdreier@cisco.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org Return-path: Received: from dsl027-180-168.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.27.180.168]:38604 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932509AbWF2Ux5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jun 2006 16:53:57 -0400 To: tom@opengridcomputing.com In-Reply-To: <1151614033.11739.82.camel@trinity.ogc.int> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Tom Tucker Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:47:13 -0500 > I concede that features have been lost, but some applications benefit > greatly from RDMA. For these applications and these customers, TOE folks give the same story... it's a broken record, really. Let us know when you can say something new about the situation. Under Linux we get to make better long term architectually sane decisions, even if it is to the dismay of the backers of certain short-sighted pieces of technology.