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From: "Hefty, Sean" <sean.hefty@intel.com>
Subject: RE: [RFC v3 00/11] HFI Virtual Network Interface Controller (VNIC)
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 21:44:26 +0000
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> This may have been stated before, but what is missing from this
> description
> is an explanation of why accepting an Ethernet over RDMA driver in the
> upstream kernel is considered useful. We already have an IPoIB driver,
> so
> why to add another driver to the kernel tree for communicating IP
> packets
> over an RDMA network?

This is Ethernet - not IP - encapsulation over a non-InfiniBand device/protocol.