At 01:41 PM 11/5/2008, Chuck Lever wrote: >On Nov 5, 2008, at 1:05 PM, Tom Tucker wrote: >> FWIW, We already require IPoIB because the NFSRDMA implementation >> uses the RDMA CM which is IP address based. > >Oh, that's too bad. I thought the IP sideband requirement would go >away with NFSv4 over RDMA because NLM/NSM would be retired. Just think of it like ARP. The RDMA CM is a low-level discovery and connection protocol, which isn't actually used by RPC or NFS at all. It just magically comes into play when the RPC client calls into the rdma_connect() subsystem. RDMA uses IP addresses, btw. Tom. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
