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Hi Bob, good to hear from you

On Tue, 30 Nov 2021, Bob Pearson wrote:

> Multicast is not an important use case for RoCE since plain IP is a better solution.

Multicast is an important use case for ROCE especially in the area of
finance and there is commercial middleware that depends on it. Plain IP
suffers from the high kernel overhead. High packet rates are only
possible through the RDMA apis.

Greetings,
   Christoph