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Date:      Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:43:35 +0800
From:      gnn@freebsd.org
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Kip Macy <kip.macy@gmail.com>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RDMA support on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <m2sl1zgp60.wl%gnn@neville-neil.com>
In-Reply-To: <20071217193804.GA17357@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>
References:  <b1fa29170712171122i3c21d596u1cf17cc9b080fcd7@mail.gmail.com> <20071217193804.GA17357@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>

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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



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