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From: "Hefty, Sean" <sean.hefty@intel.com>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>, "Wan, Kaike" <kaike.wan@intel.com>
Cc: "dledford@redhat.com" <dledford@redhat.com>,
	"linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Rimmer, Todd" <todd.rimmer@intel.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH RFC 0/9] A rendezvous module
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2021 20:34:17 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DM6PR11MB460924762347AF1EA22C1E8D9E689@DM6PR11MB4609.namprd11.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210319154805.GV2356281@nvidia.com>

> > > 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.

I'm not familiar enough with the details of RDS or this service to know the differences.

- Sean

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-03-19 20:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-19 12:56 [PATCH RFC 0/9] A rendezvous module kaike.wan
2021-03-19 12:56 ` [PATCH RFC 1/9] RDMA/rv: Public interferce for the RDMA Rendezvous module kaike.wan
2021-03-19 16:00   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-03-19 18:42   ` kernel test robot
2021-03-19 12:56 ` [PATCH RFC 2/9] RDMA/rv: Add the internal header files kaike.wan
2021-03-19 16:02   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-03-19 12:56 ` [PATCH RFC 3/9] RDMA/rv: Add the rv module kaike.wan
2021-03-19 12:56 ` [PATCH RFC 4/9] RDMA/rv: Add functions for memory region cache kaike.wan
2021-03-19 12:56 ` [PATCH RFC 5/9] RDMA/rv: Add function to register/deregister memory region kaike.wan
2021-03-19 12:56 ` [PATCH RFC 6/9] RDMA/rv: Add connection management functions kaike.wan
2021-03-19 12:56 ` [PATCH RFC 7/9] RDMA/rv: Add functions for RDMA transactions kaike.wan
2021-03-19 12:56 ` [PATCH RFC 8/9] RDMA/rv: Add functions for file operations kaike.wan
2021-03-19 12:56 ` [PATCH RFC 9/9] RDMA/rv: Integrate the file operations into the rv module kaike.wan
2021-03-19 13:53 ` [PATCH RFC 0/9] A rendezvous module Jason Gunthorpe
2021-03-19 14:49   ` Wan, Kaike
2021-03-19 15:48     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-03-19 19:22       ` Dennis Dalessandro
2021-03-19 19:44         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-03-19 20:12           ` Rimmer, Todd
2021-03-19 20:26             ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-03-19 20:46               ` Rimmer, Todd
2021-03-19 20:54                 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-03-19 20:59                   ` Wan, Kaike
2021-03-19 21:28                     ` Dennis Dalessandro
2021-03-19 21:58                       ` Wan, Kaike
2021-03-19 22:35                         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-03-19 22:57                       ` Rimmer, Todd
2021-03-19 23:06                         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-03-20 16:39                         ` Dennis Dalessandro
2021-03-21  8:56                           ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-03-21 16:24                             ` Dennis Dalessandro
2021-03-21 16:45                               ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-03-21 17:21                                 ` Dennis Dalessandro
2021-03-21 18:08                                   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-03-22 15:17                                     ` Rimmer, Todd
2021-03-22 16:47                                       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-03-22 17:31                                     ` Hefty, Sean
2021-03-23 22:56                                       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-03-23 23:29                                         ` Rimmer, Todd
2021-03-21 19:19                                   ` Wan, Kaike
2021-03-23 15:36                                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-23 15:35                                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-23 15:33                               ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-23 15:30                         ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-23 15:46                           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-03-23 16:07                             ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-23 17:25                               ` Rimmer, Todd
2021-03-23 17:44                                 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-03-19 20:18           ` Dennis Dalessandro
2021-03-19 20:30             ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-03-19 20:34       ` Hefty, Sean [this message]
2021-03-21 12:08         ` Jason Gunthorpe

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