[openib-general] [ANNOUNCE] Contribute RDS (Reliable DatagramSockets) to OpenIB

[Grant Grundler]

On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 05:37:47PM -0500, Rick Frank wrote:
> It is very important to Oracle for RDS to be available in OpenIB in as many
> Linux distributions as possible.
>
> Is this going to happen and in what timeframe / what are the plans for Linux
> distributions to pick up OpenIB with RDS support ?

OpenIB doesn't have RDS support yet AFAICT. Some code is in
	contrib/silverstorm/rds/

but not in the trunk where Roland can ship it to kernel.org
and where every distro will look for it.

But as Roland said, RDS doesn't even have a Makefile.
I've reviewed some of it shortly after it got dropped in but
still need to go through alot more of the code.

> How can we (Oracle) help ?

1) Port contrib/silverstorm/rds/ to linux-kernel/infiniband/ulp/rds/
2) include some docs on it's use and why RDS is better than SDP.
3) nag people to review the ported code
4) post functional test results

That's a prioritized list if that helps.

Regarding (2), I need to re-read your last OpenIB conf RDS presentation.
ISTR there was a reason but the details escape me. You guys once explained
it but the details didn't stick.

cheers,
grant