[ofa-general] Pending libibverbs patches?

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Wed Apr 16 15:54:13 PDT 2008


 > I'm not convinced this is really better for a high-level readme, but would
 > saying "iWarp Ethernet NICs support RDMA over TCP" be clearer?  I'm thinking
 > about ConnectX, which provides RDMA over Ethernet, but doesn't use the iWarp
 > protocol.  And iWarp RDMA should be usable even if crossing non-Ethernet
 > subnets.

It's a good point... I wasn't sure how to phrase things in the best
way.  All current iWARP NICs do TCP, but there is an IETF RFC for iWARP
over SCTP too.  So one could say "RDMA over IP" but then again the
ConnectX ethernet thing is really RDMA over IP too...

 - R.



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