[rds-devel] [PATCH net-next 0/5] RDS: TCP transport support

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Sun Aug 23 19:13:42 PDT 2009


From: Andy Grover <andy.grover at oracle.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:28:30 -0700

> This patch series adds a TCP transport for RDS. Instead of requiring
> an IB queue pair for communication between two nodes, it may instead 
> tunnel traffic over a TCP connection. This makes RDS usable by
> people without IB hardware, or in a VM.
> 
> In addition, this patchset modularizes RDS into an rds core module,
> an rds_rdma module (for Infiniband and iWARP) and rds_tcp module. RDS
> itself no longer has a dependency on IB (the rds_rdma module does).
> 
> This code has been tested and verified to work and perform acceptably, 
> but has not yet had intensive performance analysis.

All applied to net-next-2.6, thanks.

I'll push it out to kernel.org after some build tests.



More information about the rds-devel mailing list