RDMA support on FreeBSD

[Kip Macy]

On Dec 17, 2007 11:38 AM, Brooks Davis <brooks at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> 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'll give a heads up of my intent to check it in to contrib when its
stable enough for wider use. It may be a couple of weeks. I just asked
in advance because sometimes these discussions can drag on.

 -Kip