At this point we really need to get RDS on IB ported to Gen 2 so we can get
this into Linux distributions ASAP.
We (Oracle) are currently investigating / working on an RDS over Ethernet
driver for Linux. Our current plans are to produce a new verbs provider that
registers with Gen 2 IB verbs layer. This new driver will bind to a standard
ethernet nic driver and implement the RC semantics. This will allow us to
use 100% of the ported RDS ULP.
Note that RDP should also run over any other interconnect that registers
with the verbs layer - such as iWARP, etc .
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Woodruff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Ranjit Pandit'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Rick Frank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 6:58 PM
Subject: RE: [openib-general] [ANNOUNCE] Contribute
RDS(ReliableDatagramSockets) to OpenIB
Ranjit wrote,
RDS is somewhat like SDP in that it offloads/accelerates SOCK_DGRAM
instead of SOCK_STREAM.
So back to the question from Roland that started this thread.
When do you plan to re-work the code to use the OpenIB
verbs and make it suitable for the kernel ?
And do you plan to develop the code, or at least the infrastructure
to allow multiple RDS providers to plug in
so that it is ubiquitous - supported on all interconnects - to include
simple Ethernet NICs ?
woody
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