> Other protocols are also running over networking today, such as iSCSI > and FCoE. These happily co-exist with other L2->L4 protocols in the > stack. This iWARP patch allows iWARP to happily co-exist on a TCP > connection, and does *not* negatively affect the networking stack at > all.
How do iSCSI offload HBAs coexist? As I understand it, they typically just choose a separate IP address. In any case I'm not going to slip in a patch that another maintainer has explicitly NAKed. Maybe one way to force things forward would be to write up an exhaustive explanation of the underlying problem and the impact on end users, include this patch, explain that it touches only RDMA code, and point out that most end users are already using this patch since it's shipped in OFED. Then send the whole thing to Linus and Andrew Morton, making sure to cc Dave Miller, netdev, and linux-rdma. - R. -- Roland Dreier <[email protected]> || For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/index.html -- 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
