We have released an updated NFS/RDMA client for Linux at the project's Sourceforge site:
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/nfs-rdma/> <http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=97628&package_id=178973> This release updates the RPC/RDMA support as follows: Linux 2.6.15.2 supported Integrates with RPC via 2.6.15 transport switch Employs OpenIB RDMA verbs API (not kDAPL) Dual BSD/GPL2 licensing There are no protocol changes in this release, it is identical to the previous release (and the IETF draft) in this respect. The client has been tested with NFSv3 and passes the Connectathon test suite. At present, the client requires some additional transport switch patches to be applied to the Linux kernel, these are available at Chuck Lever's patches page: <http://troy.citi.umich.edu/~cel/linux-2.6/2.6.15/release-notes.html> The related CITI NFS/RDMA server project is currently available for 2.6.14 from: <http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/rdma/> <http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/rdma/patches/stage2/2.6.14.3-RPCRDMA_stage2_2005-12-19.patch> This server is functional but only supports small RDMA inline data transfers, and a single request in flight. So, its performance is quite far from the potential. However, it is functional and is the server we pass Connectathon with! The server project is now being developed by Open Grid Computing, moving to the OpenIB common RDMA verbs API. We'll be making updates to both client and server as they become available. There's a lot more to do. We look forward to comments and feedback from the various standards and open source communities on this. Feel free to use the mailing list on the sourceforge project site, or any of these lists (which we usually monitor) but cc at least me and James Lentini ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Thanks, Tom Talpey, for the various NFS/RDMA projects. _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
