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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: rds-devel@oss.oracle.com, general@lists.openfabrics.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 0/26] Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS), take 2
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:16:18 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <adaeixmtma5.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090225.000628.108688119.davem@davemloft.net> (David Miller's message of "Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:06:28 -0800 (PST)")

 > 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.
 > 
 > That's not allowed.
 > 
 > We always said that if these RDMA things are in the tree,
 > they should use their own IP addresses and that are not
 > visible to the real Linux networking stack.

How is what the RDS code is doing any different than what the (upstream)
NFS/RDMA and iSER code does?  It uses the same rdma_xxx() interfaces for
handling connections.

 - R.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-02-25 18:16 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
2009-02-25 18:16       ` Roland Dreier [this message]
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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