Messages in this thread | | | Subject | RE: [ofa-general] [PATCH 2.6.26 3/3] RDMA/cxgb3: Support peer-2-peerconnection setup. | Date | Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:51:11 -0400 | From | "Kanevsky, Arkady" <> |
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I expect it to be tests at Sept interop event. If it works then I will send proposal to IETF for MPA enhancement. Thanks,
Arkady Kanevsky email: arkady@netapp.com Network Appliance Inc. phone: 781-768-5395 1601 Trapelo Rd. - Suite 16. Fax: 781-895-1195 Waltham, MA 02451 central phone: 781-768-5300
> -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Wise [mailto:swise@opengridcomputing.com] > Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 12:45 PM > To: Roland Dreier > Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org; general@lists.openfabrics.org; > linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; divy@chelsio.com > Subject: Re: [ofa-general] [PATCH 2.6.26 3/3] RDMA/cxgb3: > Support peer-2-peerconnection setup. > > > > Roland Dreier wrote: > > What are the interoperability implications of this? > > > > Looking closer I see that iw_nes has the send_first module > parameter. > > How does this interact with that? > > > > It doesn't...yet. But we wanted to enable these applications > for chelsio now and get the low level fw and driver changes > done first and tested. > > > I guess it's fine to apply this, but do we have a plan for > how we want > > to handle this issue in the long-term? > > > > Yes! If you'll recall, we had a thread on the ofa general > list discussing how to enhance the MPA negotiation so peers > can indicate whether they want/need the RTR and what type of > RTR (0B read, 0B write, or 0B send) should be sent. This > will be done by standardizing a few bits of the private data > in order to negotiate all this. The rdma-cma API will be > extended so applications will have to request this > peer-2-peer model since it adds overhead to the connection setup. > > I plan to do this work for 2.6.27/ofed-1.4. I think it was > listed in Felix's talk at Sonoma. This work (design, API, > and code changes affecting core and placing requirements on > iwarp providers) will be posted as RFC changes to get > everyones feedback as soon as I get something going. > > Does that sound ok? > > > Steve. > _______________________________________________ > general mailing list > general@lists.openfabrics.org > http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general > > To unsubscribe, please visit > http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general >
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