[openib-general] FMR and how they work

David M. Brean David.Brean at Sun.COM
Tue May 3 10:58:58 PDT 2005


Hello,

I thought that IB implementations of iSER and NFS over RDMA were using 
kDAPL.

-David

Libor Michalek wrote:

>On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 01:37:00PM -0700, Caitlin Bestler wrote:
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>
>>What advantages is this style of fast memory register supposed to
>>have over the work request style found in IB 1.2 and iWARP?
>>    
>>
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>  It's faster since all you're doing is rewriting the device's
>page table mapping. It would be interesting to see benchmark
>results if anyone has them.
>
>  
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>>How is this style of fast memory register supposed to be utilized
>>from DAPL or ITAPI when they both assume work requests?
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>
>  It has yet to come up, so far all the consumers are written
>directly to IB kernel verbs.
>
>-Libor
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