[rds-devel] iWARP RDMA patch

[Jon Mason]

On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 03:29:55PM -0500, Richard Frank wrote:
> for bcopy:
>
> 1) loopback should be all that is needed to run tkmvrpc...

I have verified that rds-ping works over iWARP via loopback.

> 2) we (Oracle) will run Oracle regression tests here + rds-stress for  
> basic performance..
> We have your NICs installed - just need a complete stack to start..

Is there anything we can do to help out here?

> 3) then a full RAC IPC certification..on 16 nodes.. fully redundant  
> fabric - executed by vendor..
>
> for rdma:

I am still squashing bugs in the zcopy code.  Hopefully I can have this
done soon.

>
> 1) rdma completion / error processing working
> 2) get_mr to handle destination IP for the key.
> 3) we must update Oracle IPC to use the new get_mr interface - this  
> requires another Oracle release..
> 4) repeat 2 & 3 from bcopy...for rdma path.
>
> Steve Wise wrote:
>> Richard Frank wrote:
>>> The most important (IMO) support to work on - is sorting out the rdma 
>>> completion / error processing... for iWARP..
>>>
>>>   
>> Chelsio would like to get the existing Oracle release enabled on their  
>> HW.  What is the next step for this?
>>
>> Steve.