[Rdma-developers] Re: [openib-general] OpenIB and OpenRDMA: Convergence on common RDMA APIs and ULPs for Linux

[Sukanta ganguly]

Venkata,
   I understand what you were saying now.

Thanks
SG

--- Venkata Jagana <jagana at us.ibm.com> wrote:
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> 
> rdma-developers-admin at lists.sourceforge.net wrote on
> 05/27/2005 10:25:36
> AM:
> 
> > Mike,
> >    I am not sure I do understand what your were
> trying
> > to communicate. Let me try and decode this. My
> basic
> > point was to respond to Venkata's response about
> > complete offload without any interaction with the
> host
> > system. I disagree with that in its totality as I
> > think there are dependencies and that needs to be
> > specified in a formal manner, i.e. in the specs,
> so
> > that we do not have multiple proprietary
> interafaces
> > which change and application users have to change
> this
> > consumption based on individual implementations.
> >    And you just brought up the reasons why what I
> was
> > saying seemed to be justfied. Did I read that
> > correctly?
> >
> > Thanks
> > SG
> >
> 
> Hello Sukanta,
> 
> Yes, there will be interactions with the host system
> for an RNIC
> but through an interface something similar to
> RNIC-PI.
> 
> The clarification that I was trying to make is that
> from an RNIC
> perspective, it
> doesn't have to expose any ToE interface other than
> the fact that adapters
> might be providing
> multiple services including ToE, RDMA, iSCSI but
> that's outside the scope
> of an
> RNIC interface.
> 
> Thanks
> Venkat

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