Re: [PATCH 0/21] Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS)
From: Roland Dreier <hidden>
Date: 2009-01-28 22:37:27
From: Roland Dreier <hidden>
Date: 2009-01-28 22:37:27
> This patchset adds support for RDS as an Infiniband ULP. RDS is an > Oracle-originated protocol used to send IPC datagrams (up to 1MB) reliably, > and is used currently in Oracle RAC and Exadata products. It's lived > in OFED for 2+ years and I think it's time to get it upstream -- most > likely into your -next tree for .30, but if it snuck into .29 via the > "new code merge-window exception" then even better. I'll read this over and comment, but to be honest I agree with Dave: this is a new socket family, and as such it belongs under net/ and probably should go through Dave's tree (just as the NFS/RDMA changes went through the NFS trees and the 9p/RDMA changes went through the 9p tree); even though it heavily uses RDMA I think the upper layer interface to sockets/networking is more relevant. - R.