[ewg] RE: [ofa-general] OFED 1.3 Alpha release is available

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Talpey, Thomas wrote:
> At 08:46 PM 10/16/2007, Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen) wrote:
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>> What ever happened to NFS RDMA?
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> The NFS/RDMA client is queued for 2.6.24-rc1, it has been in the NFS
> client maintainer's tree for some time and was pulled by Linus last week.
> I haven't announced it yet because it appears the 2.6.24 merge window
> is a bit of a mess! But I expect it to contain the client.
>
> If you want to see it in its current state, go to
> 	git://linux-nfs.org/nfs-2.6
>
> I thought OFED1.3 was intended to be 2.6.24-based. In that case
> why would it exclude other 2.6.24 content simply because it wasn't
> there for an early Alpha?
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Being in upstream kernel is very good but for NFS RDMA to be in OFED we 
need backport patches that supports all OSes
(e.g. SLES 10 based on kernel 2.6.16, RHEL 5 based on kernel 2.6.18) and 
someone has to do this work

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