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

[Rick Frank]

At this point we really need to get RDS on IB ported to Gen 2 so we can get 
this into Linux distributions ASAP.

We (Oracle) are currently investigating / working on an RDS over Ethernet 
driver for Linux. Our current plans are to produce a new verbs provider that 
registers with Gen 2 IB verbs layer. This new driver will bind to a standard 
ethernet nic driver and implement the RC semantics. This will allow us to 
use 100% of the ported RDS ULP.

Note that RDP should also run over any other interconnect that registers 
with the verbs layer - such as iWARP, etc .

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Woodruff" <robert.j.woodruff at intel.com>
To: "'Ranjit Pandit'" <rpandit at silverstorm.com>
Cc: "Rick Frank" <Richard.Frank at oracle.com>; <openib-general at openib.org>
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 6:58 PM
Subject: RE: [openib-general] [ANNOUNCE] Contribute 
RDS(ReliableDatagramSockets) to OpenIB


> Ranjit wrote,
>>RDS is somewhat like SDP in that it offloads/accelerates SOCK_DGRAM
>>instead of SOCK_STREAM.
>
> So back to the question from Roland that started this thread.
> When do you plan to re-work the code to use the OpenIB
> verbs and make it suitable for the kernel ?
>
> And do you plan to develop the code, or at least the infrastructure
> to allow multiple RDS providers to plug in
> so that it is ubiquitous - supported on all interconnects - to include
> simple Ethernet NICs ?
>
> woody
>
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