Just be realistic and accept that RDMA is a point in time solution,
and like any other such technology takes flexibility away from users.
All technologies are just point in time solutions. While management is
important, shouldn't the customers decide how important it is relative to their
From: Sean Hefty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 00:01:07 -0700
Millions of Infiniband ports are in operation today. Over 25% of the top 500
supercomputers use Infiniband. The formation of the OpenFabrics Alliance was
pushed and has been continuously funded by an RDMA customer - the
It's not about being a niche. It's about creating a maintainable
software net stack that has predictable behavior.
Needing to reach out of the RDMA sandbox and reserve net stack resources
away from itself travels a path we've consistently avoided.
We need to ensure that we're also creating a
