RDMA support on FreeBSD

[Hidetoshi Shimokawa]

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 at 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 at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > 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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