On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 05:17:25PM +0530, Muneendra Kumar M wrote: > Although we concur with the idea of RDMA directly over Fibre channel, the > actual implementation addressing the above reasons requires > standardization and coordination with FC HBA vendors and other SAN > ecosystem players. This effort is ongoing within our organization (Brocade > at Broadcom). However, there is a business case for the current soft > RDMA implementation for FC, i.e. RDMA over FC-NVMe, as it provides > existing Fibre channel customers a way to utilize existing FC network to > transport RDMA workloads as well. While doing this we are making sure > NVMe block traffic also can happen on the same FC network. There might be a business case for you, but with my Linux NVMe (co-)maintainer hat on I'll have to tell you that this abuse of the Linux nvme code is a complete no-go. And even if it wasn't we'd still require the protocol be ratified by the NVMe technical working group first. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
