RDMA support on FreeBSD

Hidetoshi Shimokawa simokawa at FreeBSD.ORG
Tue Dec 18 23:31:43 PST 2007


I'm also interested in RDMA support.
IEEE1394 OHCI has a RDMA-like feature.

On 12/19/07, gnn at freebsd.org <gnn at 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
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