[ofa-general] [PATCH RFC] rds: add iwarp support
Steve Wise
swise at opengridcomputing.com
Tue Jul 8 07:49:59 PDT 2008
Just for the record, there are a few coding todos remaining once we get
the main merged IB/IW transport:
1) Make use of the local_dma_lkey if the device supports it. This lkey
can be used in the SGL entries for SEND, RECV, and the source of a WRITE.
2) Get rid of the dma_mr usage for the sink of an RDMA READ. For iWARP,
the sink of a read requires REMOTE_WRITE access, and we do not want to
expose all of memory for remote I/O. The transport will have to use a
fastreg mr for these. This is potentially iwarp-only logic since IB
allows an lkey for the sink of a READ.
Implementing both of these will allow the iwarp logic to not depend on
dma mrs at all. This is desirable for the cxgb3 device which has
limitations on dma mrs.
Steve.
More information about the general
mailing list