Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:24:36 +0900 From: "Hidetoshi Shimokawa" <simokawa@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "Kip Macy" <kip.macy@gmail.com> Cc: "gnn@freebsd.org" <gnn@freebsd.org>, Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RDMA support on FreeBSD Message-ID: <626eb4530712182324j6137abb1l9d705fe43bd90e29@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <b1fa29170712182312l472f4d4fx4805081cef7c60f8@mail.gmail.com> References: <b1fa29170712171122i3c21d596u1cf17cc9b080fcd7@mail.gmail.com> <20071217193804.GA17357@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <m2sl1zgp60.wl%gnn@neville-neil.com> <626eb4530712182307o63ed8d0cjc985f4404e143c1b@mail.gmail.com> <b1fa29170712182312l472f4d4fx4805081cef7c60f8@mail.gmail.com>
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I don't think IEEE1394 has enough privilege checks. Anyway, thanks for a pointer of docs. I'll check it later. On 12/19/07, Kip Macy <kip.macy@gmail.com> wrote: > Could you take a look at the openfabric docs and see how well that > meshes with IEEE1394? > > I think the lack of privilege checks might make it a bad fit. However, > it *might* work for users who don't care about security. > > -Kip > > > On 12/18/07, Hidetoshi Shimokawa <simokawa@freebsd.org> wrote: > > I'm also interested in RDMA support. > > IEEE1394 OHCI has a RDMA-like feature. > > > > On 12/19/07, gnn@freebsd.org <gnn@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > At Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:38:04 -0600, > > > Brooks Davis wrote: > > > > > > > > [1 <text/plain; us-ascii (7bit)>] > > > > On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 11:22:09AM -0800, Kip Macy wrote: > > > > > Chelsio's T3 card supports iWARP (RDMA over TCP). I've ported > > > > > OpenFabric's kernel infrastructure for supporting RDMA to FreeBSD. Do > > > > > we think that other RDMA providers (IB or iWARP) will be interested > > > > > in supporting FreeBSD? If so it makes sense to put it under > > > > > sys/contrib/rdma, otherwise I'll just add it as another module under > > > > > cxgb. > > > > > > > > It seems unlikely that anyone would bother with IB without RDMA. I > > > > can't see any value in mixing it with the cxgb bits. > > > > > > > > > > I know at least one group that is looking at IB and yeah, the RDMA > > > should be generally consumable. BrooksACK += 1. > > > > > > Later > > > GEorge > > > _______________________________________________ > > > freebsd-arch@freebsd.org mailing list > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arch > > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arch-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > /\ Hidetoshi Shimokawa > > \/ simokawa@FreeBSD.ORG > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-arch@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arch > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arch-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > -- /\ Hidetoshi Shimokawa \/ simokawa@FreeBSD.ORG
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