Re: [RFC net-next] net/smc:introduce 1RTT to SMC

D. Wythe
2022-05-26T03:47:34Z

在 2022/5/25 下午9:42, Alexandra Winter 写道:

> Thank you D. Wythe for your proposals, the prototype and measurements.
> They sound quite promising to us.
> > We need to carefully evaluate them and make sure everything is compatible
> with the existing implementations of SMC-D and SMC-R v1 and v2. In the
> typical s390 environment ROCE LAG is propably not good enough, as the card
> is still a single point of failure. So your ideas need to be compatible
> with link redundancy. We also need to consider that the extension of the
> protocol does not block other desirable extensions.
>
> Your prototype is very helpful for the understanding. Before submitting any
> code patches to net-next, we should agree on the details of the protocol
> extension. Maybe you could formulate your proposal in plain text, so we can
> discuss it here?

I am very pleased to hear that your team have interest in this
proposals, and thanks a lot for your advise. We really appreciate your
point of view about compatibility, In fact, we are working on some
written drafts which compatibility is quite a important part, and will
be shared here soon.

>
> We also need to inform you that several public holidays are upcoming in the
> next weeks and several of our team will be out for summer vacation, so please
> allow for longer response times.

Thanks for your informing, that's totaly okay to us. May your holidays
be full of warmth and cheer.

> Kind regards
> Alexandra Winter
>

D. Wyther
Thanks.