> RoCEE (pronounced ‘rocky’) allows running the IB transport protocol > using Ethernet frames, enabling the deployment of IB semantics on > lossless Ethernet fabrics.
Just starting to review this, but let me say at the start that I really don't like the term "RoCEE" for this stuff. The OFED 1.5 release you guys did was called "RDMAoE" but I really think "IBoE" is the best term. Taking the two halves of "RoCEE": The "CEE" acronym doesn't seem appropriate, since the standard is really called "DCB" and in any case these patches (as far as I can tell) don't use any DCB features. "E" for Ethernet would make more sense. And "R" or "RDMA" seems insufficiently descriptive -- the whole point of this protocol is that it uses the IB transport layer rather than iWARP or something else, so it seems much clearer to call this "IB". Plain "R" is really opaque -- who would ever guess that "R" stands for "RDMA". Furthermore, it makes sense to me to take advantage of all the marketing and exposition that we did for FCoE -- which was not called "SCSIoDCB". The parallels are nearly exact, and being able to say that "IBoE does is to IB transport as FCoE is to Fibre Channel" is a very clear analogy. - R. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
