[ofa-general] [PATCH 0/8] RDS patch set

[Olaf Kirch]

Hi all,

here's another set of patches related to RDS. The patches can be found
in git://git.openfabrics.org/ofed_1_3/linux-2.6
and git://git.openfabrics.org/ofed_1_3/rds-tools

There are seven kernel patches. I would very much like to see the first
four of them in OFED 1.3.1 if possible. On the remaining 3, I'm not
particularly religious - I'm fine if they make it into 1.3.* at a later
time.

RDS: Fix IB max_unacked_* sysctls
	Straightforward bugfix.

mthca/mlx4: avoid recycling old FMR R_Keys too soon
	This is a re-run of a mthca patch I posted a while back; Jack
	Morgenstein requested that I should make the same change in the
	mlx4 driver. Here it is; review and feedback much appreciated.

Reduce struct rds_ib_send_work size
RDS: Increase the default number of WRs
	These two patches go together; they shrink the size of the
	send work entry we allocate in favor of allocating more of them.
	I would very much like to see these in OFED 1.3.1

RDS: Two small code reorgs in the connection code
RDS: Use IB for loopback
	These also go together. For loopback traffic, we need to use
	IB if available, instead of the special loopback transport currently
	used. The reason is that lots of our tests run on single hosts over
	loopback, and we want to stress things like RDMA.
	
RDS: Implement rds ping
	This is really a new feature. Essentially, ping over RDS.

There's a companion patch to rds-tools that implements the rds-ping
user space utility that leverages the functionality added by the kernel
patch above.

Olaf
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