[rds-devel] [ofa-general] [PATCH 0/8] RDS patch set

[Vladimir Sokolovsky]

Olaf Kirch wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> here's another set of patches related to RDS. The patches can be found
> in git://git.openfabrics.org/ofed_1_3/linux-2.6
> and git://git.openfabrics.org/ofed_1_3/rds-tools
> 
> There are seven kernel patches. I would very much like to see the first
> four of them in OFED 1.3.1 if possible. On the remaining 3, I'm not
> particularly religious - I'm fine if they make it into 1.3.* at a later
> time.
> 
> RDS: Fix IB max_unacked_* sysctls
> 	Straightforward bugfix.
> 
> mthca/mlx4: avoid recycling old FMR R_Keys too soon
> 	This is a re-run of a mthca patch I posted a while back; Jack
> 	Morgenstein requested that I should make the same change in the
> 	mlx4 driver. Here it is; review and feedback much appreciated.
> 
> Reduce struct rds_ib_send_work size
> RDS: Increase the default number of WRs
> 	These two patches go together; they shrink the size of the
> 	send work entry we allocate in favor of allocating more of them.
> 	I would very much like to see these in OFED 1.3.1
> 
> RDS: Two small code reorgs in the connection code
> RDS: Use IB for loopback
> 	These also go together. For loopback traffic, we need to use
> 	IB if available, instead of the special loopback transport currently
> 	used. The reason is that lots of our tests run on single hosts over
> 	loopback, and we want to stress things like RDMA.
> 	
> RDS: Implement rds ping
> 	This is really a new feature. Essentially, ping over RDS.
> 
> There's a companion patch to rds-tools that implements the rds-ping
> user space utility that leverages the functionality added by the kernel
> patch above.
> 
> Olaf

Applied to ofed_1_3/linux-2.6.git and to ofed_1_3/rds-tools.git.

The following OFED build includes these patches:

http://www.openfabrics.org/builds/ofed-1.3.1/OFED-1.3.1-20080429-0110.tgz

Regards,
Vladimir