From: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@Voltaire.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, rds-devel@oss.oracle.com,
general@lists.openfabrics.org
Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 0/26] Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS), take 2
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:46:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49A51358.4080408@Voltaire.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090225.000628.108688119.davem@davemloft.net>
David Miller wrote:
> It's making real sockets, using the real networking stack,
> using up real IP port/address pairs recognized by the rest
> of the real networking stack, and doing RDMA over that connection.
The only usage of the network stack done by the RDMA stack (at its rdma connection manager) on behalf of protocols such as RDS is for address resolution. This practice of sending ARPs is supported by the mainline kernel for long time and common also among other technologies / drivers.
Or.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-25 9:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-25 1:30 [ofa-general] [PATCH 0/26] Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS), take 2 Andy Grover
2009-02-25 1:30 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH 01/26] RDS: Socket interface Andy Grover
2009-02-25 1:30 ` [PATCH 02/26] RDS: Main header file Andy Grover
2009-02-25 1:30 ` [PATCH 03/26] RDS: Congestion-handling code Andy Grover
2009-02-25 1:30 ` [PATCH 04/26] RDS: Transport code Andy Grover
2009-02-25 1:30 ` [PATCH 05/26] RDS: Info and stats Andy Grover
2009-02-25 1:30 ` [PATCH 06/26] RDS: Connection handling Andy Grover
2009-02-25 1:30 ` [PATCH 07/26] RDS: loopback Andy Grover
2009-02-25 1:30 ` [PATCH 08/26] RDS: sysctls Andy Grover
2009-02-25 1:30 ` [PATCH 09/26] RDS: Message parsing Andy Grover
2009-02-25 1:30 ` [PATCH 10/26] RDS: send.c Andy Grover
2009-02-25 1:30 ` [PATCH 11/26] RDS: recv.c Andy Grover
2009-02-25 1:30 ` [PATCH 12/26] RDS: RDMA support Andy Grover
2009-02-25 1:30 ` [PATCH 13/26] RDS/IB: Infiniband transport Andy Grover
2009-02-25 1:30 ` [PATCH 14/26] RDS/IB: Ring-handling code Andy Grover
2009-02-25 1:30 ` [PATCH 15/26] RDS/IB: Implement RDMA ops using FMRs Andy Grover
2009-02-25 1:30 ` [PATCH 16/26] RDS/IB: Implement IB-specific datagram send Andy Grover
2009-02-25 1:30 ` [PATCH 17/26] RDS/IB: Receive datagrams via IB Andy Grover
2009-02-25 1:30 ` [PATCH 18/26] RDS/IB: Stats and sysctls Andy Grover
2009-02-25 1:30 ` [PATCH 19/26] RDS: Add iWARP support Andy Grover
2009-02-25 1:30 ` [PATCH 20/26] RDS: Common RDMA transport code Andy Grover
2009-02-25 1:30 ` [PATCH 21/26] RDS: Documentation Andy Grover
2009-02-25 1:30 ` [PATCH 22/26] RDS: Kconfig and Makefile Andy Grover
2009-02-25 1:30 ` [PATCH 23/26] RDS: Add AF and PF #defines for RDS sockets Andy Grover
2009-02-25 7:26 ` [ofa-general] " David Miller
2009-02-25 11:36 ` Rémi Denis-Courmont
2009-02-25 11:58 ` David Miller
2009-02-25 18:45 ` Andrew Grover
2009-02-25 1:30 ` [PATCH 24/26] RDS: Add MAINTAINERS entry Andy Grover
2009-02-25 1:30 ` [PATCH 25/26] RDS: Add userspace header Andy Grover
2009-02-25 1:30 ` [PATCH 26/26] RDS: Add RDS to AF key strings Andy Grover
2009-02-25 7:28 ` [PATCH 0/26] Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS), take 2 David Miller
2009-02-25 8:04 ` [ofa-general] " Or Gerlitz
2009-02-25 8:06 ` David Miller
2009-02-25 9:46 ` Or Gerlitz [this message]
2009-02-25 18:16 ` Roland Dreier
2009-02-25 18:43 ` Andrew Grover
2009-02-25 21:45 ` [ofa-general] " David Miller
2009-02-27 8:01 ` David Miller
2009-02-27 18:21 ` Andrew Grover
2009-02-27 17:08 ` [ofa-general] " Andi Kleen
2009-02-28 1:53 ` ***SPAM*** " Andrew Grover
2009-02-28 5:56 ` Andi Kleen
2009-02-28 20:44 ` ***SPAM*** " Andrew Grover
2009-02-28 22:36 ` Andi Kleen
2009-03-01 0:58 ` ***SPAM*** " Andrew Grover
2009-03-01 1:50 ` Andi Kleen
2009-03-03 22:19 ` ***SPAM*** " Andrew Grover
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