[ofa-general] [RFC] dropping RDS over TCP support

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 01:50:39PM -0700, Andy Grover wrote:
 
> Lastly, we're looking to extend rds with more ib-centric features in the
> future, so it would be a development burden to tunnel that over the TCP
> transport...and that starts to sound a lot like reinventing iwarp ;-)

Has anyone talked about a SW implementation of iWarp? It seems to me
this same question is going to keep coming up the more protocols are
developed.. Even if there is no HW offload a SW only version should
get reasonable performance relative to straight TCP I'd think..

Jason