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

[Roland Dreier]

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

That seems rather an awkward way to go about it.  Why not just use TCP?

 - R.