RDMA support on FreeBSD

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At Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:38:04 -0600,
Brooks Davis wrote:
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> 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