Re: [openib-general] [PATCH v2 04/13] Connection Manager

2006-12-05 Thread Michael Krause
If you require more details on how this all works - it was fully explored in the IETF RDDP workgroup - may I suggest a reading of the RDMA Security Considerations draft which goes through many of the issues on how one relates to a host stack. This complements the MPA spec and supports much

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH v2 04/13] Connection Manager

2006-12-05 Thread Steve Wise
On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 10:02 -0600, Steve Wise wrote: > On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 11:45 +0100, Brice Goglin wrote: > > Steve Wise wrote: > > > There is no SW TCP stack in this driver. The HW supports RDMA over > > > TCP/IP/10GbE in HW and this is required for zero-copy RDMA over Ethernet > > > (aka

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH v2 04/13] Connection Manager

2006-12-05 Thread Steve Wise
On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 10:12 -0600, Steve Wise wrote: > On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 18:59 +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 09:39:58AM -0600, Steve Wise ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > > Phrases like "MPA-aware TCP" rises a lot of questions - briefly saying > > > > that

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH v2 04/13] Connection Manager

2006-12-05 Thread Steve Wise
On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 10:12 -0600, Steve Wise wrote: On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 18:59 +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 09:39:58AM -0600, Steve Wise ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Phrases like MPA-aware TCP rises a lot of questions - briefly saying that hardware (even if

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH v2 04/13] Connection Manager

2006-12-05 Thread Steve Wise
On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 10:02 -0600, Steve Wise wrote: On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 11:45 +0100, Brice Goglin wrote: Steve Wise wrote: There is no SW TCP stack in this driver. The HW supports RDMA over TCP/IP/10GbE in HW and this is required for zero-copy RDMA over Ethernet (aka iWARP). The

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH v2 04/13] Connection Manager

2006-12-05 Thread Michael Krause
If you require more details on how this all works - it was fully explored in the IETF RDDP workgroup - may I suggest a reading of the RDMA Security Considerations draft which goes through many of the issues on how one relates to a host stack. This complements the MPA spec and supports much