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From: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
Subject: Linux support for RDMA (was: [Ksummit-2005-discuss] Summary of 2005
 Kernel Summit Proposed Topics)
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 19:19:35 -0800
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    Benjamin> Agreed.  After working on a full TOE implementation, I
    Benjamin> think that the niche market most TOE vendors are
    Benjamin> pursuing is not one that the Linux community will ever
    Benjamin> develop for.  Hardware vendors that gradually add
    Benjamin> offloading features from the NIC realm to speed up the
    Benjamin> existing network stack are a much better fit with Linux.

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.

InfiniBand adoption is strong right now, with lots of large clusters
being built.  It seems reasonable that RDMA/TCP should be able to
compete in the same market.  Whether InfiniBand or RDMA/TCP or both
will survive or prosper is a good question, and I think it's too early
to tell yet.

 - R.