Please ignore this draft message, which somehow escaped my outbox! The code will be up shortly though.
Sorry for the interruption. Tom. At 01:50 PM 3/6/2006, Talpey, Thomas wrote: >Following up on the client release of Feb 8, we are releasing >a first-functional NFS/RDMA server for Linux 2.6.15, along with >client updates based on comments received. > >These are both licensed under dual BSD/GPL2 terms, and available >at the project's Sourceforge site: > ><http://sourceforge.net/projects/nfs-rdma/> > ><http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=###&package_id=###> > >Both client and server employ the native OpenIB verbs API for >RDMA, and work equally for Infiniband and iWARP. > >The client and server implement the IETF draft protocol and fully >support direct (zero-copy, zero-touch) RDMA transfers at the RPC >layer. However, the write performance is not yet representative of >full RDMA operation, due to a bottleneck in the server's use of RDMA >Read, and at least one data copy in its handoff to the filesystem. >We will be rectifying the former, and investigating the latter. > >Both the client and server have been tested with NFSv3 and pass >the Connectathon test suite. > >Due to the additional components, the procedure for applying the >patches is substantially more involved, requiring several steps to >be followed in a particular sequence. Also, the server patches have >been separated into "framework" and "RDMA" sections, as already >been done for the client. The package README has details. > >The RDMA support in this NFS server release was developed by >Tom Tucker of Open Grid Computing and we thank him for his efforts >on this. > >At this time, the changes to the Linux NFS server svc framework are >in effect a first proposal for how RDMA support might be added to the >code. There are open issues in both how the module linkage should >be structured, and also how the linkage to existing code be done. > >As before, we look forward to comments and feedback! Thanks for all >of it so far. > >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 _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
