Roland Dreier wrote: > > 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.
Would it help to weigh in on the usage of RDMA, not so much a niche these days. The latest top500 list shows 207 systems (i.e. 41%) using RDMA (read IB)? Thanks Pradeep -- 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
