netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/21] Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS)

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Message-ID: <adaskn3ukey.fsf@cisco.com>
Date:	Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:37:25 -0800
From:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
To:	Andy Grover <andy.grover@...cle.com>
Cc:	rds-devel@....oracle.com, general@...ts.openfabrics.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/21] Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS)

 > 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.
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