netdev - Re: [net-next][PATCH v2 01/13] RDS: Drop stale iWARP RDMA transport

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Message-ID: <56D2C7CD.3020009@oracle.com>
Date:	Sun, 28 Feb 2016 02:11:25 -0800
From:	"santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com" <santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next][PATCH v2 01/13] RDS: Drop stale iWARP RDMA transport



On 2/28/16 1:05 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 06:19:38PM -0800, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
>> RDS iWarp support code has become stale and non testable. As
>> indicated earlier, am dropping the support for it.
>>
>> If new iWarp user(s) shows up in future, we can adapat the RDS IB
>> transprt for the special RDMA READ sink case. iWarp needs an MR
>> for the RDMA READ sink.
>
> Please take a look at the RDMA RW API series I posted yesterday - if
> you can adopt RDS to that you should get iWarp support for free.
>
Will have a look. Thanks for the pointer.

> But having two different codebases for IB/RoCE vs iWarp was always a bad
> idea, so great to see the second one retired!
>
> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
>
Thanks !!