On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 08:34:17PM +0000, Hefty, Sean wrote: > > > > I also don't know why you picked the name rv, this looks like it has little to do > > > > with the usual MPI rendezvous protocol. This is all about bulk transfers. It is > > > > actually a lot like RDS. Maybe you should be using RDS? > > > > > [Wan, Kaike] While there are similarities in concepts, details are > > > different. > > > > You should list these differences. > > > > > Quite frankly this could be viewed as an application accelerator > > > much like RDS served that purpose for Oracle, which continues to be > > > its main use case. > > > > Obviously, except it seems to be doing the same basic acceleration > > technique as RDS. > > A better name for this might be "scalable RDMA service", with RDMA > meaning the transport operation. My understanding is this is > intended to be usable over any IB/RoCE device. It looks like it is really all about bulk zero-copy transfers with kernel involvment. Jason
