On Jun 1, 2018, at 7:41 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> all that churn without much visible progress to a mergeable codebase
> was really ennoying.
> 
> I'd recommend if people want to merge lustre they start with a managable
> subset first, e.g. the fs client code with simple IP-only networking.

Adding or removing the IB networking makes basically no difference to the
code size.  This would also make the client much less useful, since a large
number of sites use Lustre with IB networks.

Cheers, Andreas