On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 11:54:01AM -0500, Chuck Lever wrote: > Hi Bruce- > > > > On Jan 13, 2017, at 11:42 AM, bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > Can you summarize the motivation for the change, for someone (like me) > > that doesn't know much about RDMA? Or does "significant cleanups" cover > > it? > > Last year, Sagi and Christoph introduced a new set of APIs to the > RDMA core that enable ULPs like iSER and NFS/RDMA to leave the details > of certain aspects of operation to the core, instead of all the ULPs > having to implement the details themselves. Kind of a code refactoring / > de-duplication. > > Then, going forward, fixes and improvements made to the logic behind > this new API will be available to all ULPs that use the new API. > > This series converts the server-side RPC-over-RDMA implementation > to use the new API. > > > > Are there any regressions? For example, will it still support all the > > same hardware? Is there any change that will be noticeable to NFS/RDMA > > users? > > All the same hardware is supported. The standing policy for ULPs is > that they must work with all in-tree HCA drivers and devices. > > The goal of this work is that there is no user-visible change in > functionality or performance. > > I know it's a lot to consider, and I'm happy to split up the series > or individual patches to help review. Eh, I'll try to do a little, but realistically I'm mainly trusting you and Christoph, so it's more important that the process work for you. --b. -- 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
