> -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Talpey [mailto:tom@xxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2017 9:52 AM > To: Parav Pandit <parav@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; Jason Gunthorpe > <jgunthorpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@xxxxxxxxxxx>; leon@xxxxxxxxxx; > dledford@xxxxxxxxxx; linux-rdma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Idan Burstein > <idanb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: [PATCH rdma-next 0/3] Support out of order data placement > > Well, if the broken applications won't use the extension, and the existing > storage protocols and applications will have to change both their > implementation and their protocol to use it, who do you envision actually doing > so? Current application binaries and their middleware binaries can continue to work as is. New applications query this feature and enable themselves to take benefit of this optional extension. ��.n��������+%������w��{.n�����{���fk��ܨ}���Ơz�j:+v�����w����ޙ��&�)ߡ�a����z�ޗ���ݢj��w�f
