From: Tom Tucker <tom@opengridcomputing•com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik•org>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org, rdreier@cisco•com,
linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org, general@lists•openfabrics.org,
David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH RFC] RDMA/CMA: Allocate PS_TCP ports from the host TCP port space.
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:43:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1187271791.4685.9.camel@trinity.ogc.int> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46C3B5EF.5060409@garzik.org>
On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 22:26 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
[...snip...]
> > I think removing the RDMA stack is the wrong thing to do, and you
> > shouldn't just threaten to yank entire subsystems because you don't like
> > the technology. Lets keep this constructive, can we? RDMA should get
> > the respect of any other technology in Linux. Maybe its a niche in your
> > opinion, but come on, there's more RDMA users than say, the sparc64
> > port. Eh?
>
> It's not about being a niche. It's about creating a maintainable
> software net stack that has predictable behavior.
Isn't RDMA _part_ of the "software net stack" within Linux? Why isn't
making RDMA stable, supportable and maintainable equally as important as
any other subsystem?
>
> Needing to reach out of the RDMA sandbox and reserve net stack resources
> away from itself travels a path we've consistently avoided.
>
>
> >> I will NACK any patch that opens up sockets to eat up ports or
> >> anything stupid like that.
> >
> > Got it.
>
> Ditto for me as well.
>
> Jeff
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-16 13:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-07 14:37 [ofa-general] [PATCH RFC] RDMA/CMA: Allocate PS_TCP ports from the host TCP port space Steve Wise
2007-08-07 14:54 ` [ofa-general] " Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-08-07 15:06 ` Steve Wise
2007-08-07 15:39 ` [ofa-general] " Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-08-09 18:49 ` Steve Wise
2007-08-09 21:40 ` Sean Hefty
2007-08-09 21:55 ` David Miller
2007-08-09 23:22 ` Sean Hefty
2007-08-15 14:42 ` Steve Wise
2007-08-16 2:26 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-08-16 3:11 ` Roland Dreier
2007-08-16 3:27 ` [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH RFC] RDMA/CMA: Allocate PS_TCP portsfrom " Sean Hefty
2007-08-16 13:43 ` Tom Tucker [this message]
2007-08-16 21:17 ` [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH RFC] RDMA/CMA: Allocate PS_TCP ports from " David Miller
2007-08-17 19:52 ` Roland Dreier
2007-08-17 21:27 ` David Miller
2007-08-17 23:31 ` Roland Dreier
2007-08-18 0:00 ` David Miller
2007-08-18 5:23 ` Roland Dreier
2007-08-18 6:44 ` David Miller
2007-08-19 7:01 ` [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH RFC] RDMA/CMA: Allocate PS_TCP portsfrom " Sean Hefty
2007-08-19 7:23 ` David Miller
2007-08-19 17:33 ` [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH RFC] RDMA/CMA: Allocate PS_TCPportsfrom " Felix Marti
2007-08-19 19:32 ` David Miller
2007-08-19 19:49 ` Felix Marti
2007-08-19 23:04 ` David Miller
2007-08-20 0:32 ` Felix Marti
2007-08-20 0:40 ` David Miller
2007-08-20 0:47 ` Felix Marti
2007-08-20 1:05 ` David Miller
2007-08-20 1:41 ` Felix Marti
2007-08-20 11:07 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-20 16:26 ` Felix Marti
2007-08-20 19:16 ` Rick Jones
2007-08-20 9:43 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-08-20 16:53 ` Felix Marti
2007-08-20 18:10 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-20 19:02 ` Felix Marti
2007-08-20 20:18 ` Thomas Graf
2007-08-20 20:33 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-20 20:33 ` Patrick Geoffray
2007-08-21 4:21 ` Felix Marti
2007-08-19 23:27 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-19 23:12 ` David Miller
2007-08-20 1:45 ` Felix Marti
2007-08-20 0:18 ` Herbert Xu
2007-08-20 4:31 ` [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH RFC] RDMA/CMA: Allocate PS_TCP portsfrom " ssufficool
2007-08-21 1:16 ` [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH RFC] RDMA/CMA: Allocate PS_TCP ports from " Roland Dreier
2007-08-21 6:58 ` David Miller
2007-10-08 21:54 ` Steve Wise
2007-10-09 13:44 ` James Lentini
2007-10-10 21:01 ` Sean Hefty
2007-10-10 23:04 ` David Miller
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