On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 12:17:11PM -0700, Richard Sharpe wrote: > > From what I read about the SMB protocol it looks completely valid to > > bypass the TCP first stage and go directly to RDMA. Or go from TCP to > > TCP, or RDMA to TCP, or whatever. > > Microsoft tells me that they never do an RDMA-only connection. It is > always TCP first then RDMA.
Sure, but the SMB protocol allows for more than just that one case. Be careful not to architect yourself into a corner that can't do things allowed by the spec, but not performed by clients of the day.. Jason -- 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
