Re: What is RDMA

2006-07-24 Thread Andi Kleen
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 00:34, Rick Jones wrote: > That TOE/iWARP could end-up being precluded by NAT seems so ironic from a > POE2E > standpoint. Yes, it's sad, but reality unfortunately. There is even precedent: the VJ stateless TW recycling scheme also turned out to not work because of NAT

Re: What is RDMA

2006-07-24 Thread David Miller
From: Rick Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 15:34:30 -0700 > That TOE/iWARP could end-up being precluded by NAT seems so ironic > from a POE2E standpoint. To be honest we do not have a pure end to end internet, and some of our failed experiments in the past prove this :-) For exa

Re: What is RDMA

2006-07-24 Thread Rick Jones
That TOE/iWARP could end-up being precluded by NAT seems so ironic from a POE2E standpoint. rick jones "Purity Of End To END" - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordom

Re: What is RDMA

2006-07-24 Thread David Miller
From: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 18:11:31 +1000 > 5) RDMA over TCP on the receive side is offloaded into the NIC. This >allows the NIC to directly place data into the application's buffer. > >We're starting to have a little bit of a problem because it means th

Re: What is RDMA (was: RDMA will be reverted)

2006-07-11 Thread Steve Wise
On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 18:17 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 01:25:44PM -0500, Steve Wise wrote: > > > > Some IP networking is involved for this. IP addresses and port numbers > > are used by the RDMA Connection Manager. The motivation for this was > > two-fold, I think: > > >

Re: What is RDMA (was: RDMA will be reverted)

2006-07-11 Thread Herbert Xu
On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 01:25:44PM -0500, Steve Wise wrote: > > Some IP networking is involved for this. IP addresses and port numbers > are used by the RDMA Connection Manager. The motivation for this was > two-fold, I think: > > 1) to simplify the connection setup model. The IB CM model was

Re: What is RDMA (was: RDMA will be reverted)

2006-07-07 Thread Steve Wise
Great summation. Comments in-line... On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 18:11 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 06:53:20AM +, David Miller wrote: > > > > What I am saying, however, is that we need to understand the > > technology and the hooks you guys want before we put any of it in.