Re: RDMA will be reverted
From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <hidden>
Date: 2006-06-29 17:31:58
Hello. In article [ref] (at Thu, 29 Jun 2006 09:54:37 -0700), Roland Dreier [off-list ref] says:
David> Roland, there is no way in the world we would have let
David> support for RDMA into the kernel tree had we seen and
David> reviewed it on netdev. I've discussed this with Andrew
David> Morton, and we'd like you to please revert all of the RDMA
David> code from Linus's tree immedialtely.
David> Folks are well aware how against RDMA and TOE type schemes
David> the Linux networking developers are. So the fact that none
David> of these RDMA changes went up for review on netdev strikes
David> me as just a little bit more than suspicious.
[I'm really on paternity leave, but this was brought to my attention
and seems important enough to respond to]
Dave, you're going to have to be more specific. What do you mean by
RDMA? The whole drivers/infiniband infrastructure, which handles RDMA
over IB, has been upstream for a year and a half, and was in fact
originally merged by you, so I'm guessing that's not what you mean.NET_DMA things. --yoshfuji