On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 9:52 AM, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 09:18:10AM +0100, Stefan Metzmacher wrote: > >> The first goal is to provide a socket fd to userspace (or in kernel >> consumers) >> which provides semantics like a TCP socket which is used as transport >> for SMB3. Basically frames are submitted with a 4 byte length header. > > Part of the point of RDMA is that we don't need to make protocol > specific kernel modules like this - is there a specific reason this > needs to be in the kernel like this? If I had to guess it would be because Samba currently uses a fork model ... it might be years before it gets to a completely threaded model. -- Regards, Richard Sharpe (何以解憂？唯有杜康。--曹操) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
