On Nov 13, 2007 8:46 PM, Richard Frank <<a href="mailto:richard.frank@oracle.com">richard.frank@oracle.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
RDS version 1.3 adds additional interfaces - it does not break the RDS<br>1.2 interface in any way.<br><br>RDS 1.3 is the 1.2 RDS driver (assuming all patches have been applied)<br>with the additional interfaces - nothing is changed for the normal
<br>reliable send / recv operations.<br><br>Oracle 11g will run on 1.3 with no changes.<br><br>Additionally, currently there is no new wire protocol changes for RDS 1.3.<br><br>Our current plan is to have the zero copy features stable for
1.3 release.<br><br>If for some reason the zero copy interfaces are not stable - then we can<br>set 1.3 to run as 1.2 interface only.</blockquote><div><br>Rick,<br><br>A distribution (=RH/SUSE/Oracle-Enterprise/Fedora/OFED) is not a place for if-package-version-X-is-not-fine-then-replace-it-with-package-version-Y
<br><br>In a distribution one (=package maintainer and only he decides, here its Olaf) put a release of a package, period. RDS v3 is not released and the maintainer said he did not look on the code. Hence, this code does not fit any distribution which is about to pass code freeze in a week or so.
<br><br>More over, RDS has few issues in the process to fix way before you want to put V3 anywhere and it seems that Olaf is working hard to do it, so lets<br>try to put this argument behind us.<br><br>Or.<br></div></div>
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