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Message-Id: <271C72E6-27C0-425F-B43F-16A37C638DCB@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2018 07:17:48 +0300
From: Alexey Lyashkov <alexey.lyashkov@...il.com>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>,
Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@...el.com>,
"devel@...verdev.osuosl.org" <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@...el.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
"selinux@...ho.nsa.gov" <selinux@...ho.nsa.gov>,
fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
lustre-devel <lustre-devel@...ts.lustre.org>
Subject: Re: [lustre-devel] [PATCH] staging: lustre: delete the filesystem
from the tree.
> 4 июня 2018 г., в 7:15, Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca> написал(а):
>
> On Jun 3, 2018, at 9:59 PM, Alexey Lyashkov <alexey.lyashkov@...il.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Jun 03 2018, Dilger, Andreas wrote:
>>>
>>>> LNet is originally based on a high-performance networking stack called
>>>> Portals (v3, http://www.cs.sandia.gov/Portals/), with additions for LNet
>>>> routing to allow cross-network bridging.
>>>>
>>>> A critical part of LNet is that it is for RDMA and not packet-based
>>>> messages. Everything in Lustre is structured around RDMA. Of course,
>>>> RDMA is not possible with TCP
>>
>> To be clear. Soft IB (aka Soft RoCE) driver is part of OFED stack from 4.8
>> (or 4.9). So RDMA API now is possible with TCP networks.
>
> Well, strictly speaking RoCE still isn't possible with TCP networks. RoCE v1
> is an Ethernet layer protocol (not IP based), while RoCE v2 is UDP/IP based.
>
>
Andreas,
I talk about RXE driver in OFED stack. It have works over TCP networks.
It likely to be RoCE v2 compatible as UDP tunnel use and exist for while.
Alex
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