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.

What is RDMA (was: RDMA will be reverted)

2006-07-07 Thread Herbert Xu
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. Yes indeed. Here is what I've understood so far so let's see if we can start building a censensus.