From: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Max Gurtovoy <maxg@mellanox.com>
Cc: Talker Alex <alextalker@yandex.ru>, linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: NVMe/IB support
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 08:29:47 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9d9eaf6c-aa4f-b020-710e-45378e5f2507@grimberg.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200220153309.GA14266@infradead.org>
>> Are you saying that if one would like to use ADRFAM == AF_IB, he must have
>> RDMA/CM stack that support IB addressing ?
>
> Yes.
Correct, its referenced in the transport binding.
>> seems little bit weird requirement...
>
> NVMeoF/RDMA is specified to use RDMA/CM for connection management.
> There is no reason we could not also specify it on raw IB, but someone
> would have to do the work and specify a binding for it.
The simplicity is useful actually, so targets/hosts don't need to
support both.
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-07 12:43 NVMe/IB support Talker Alex
2020-02-08 1:39 ` Sagi Grimberg
2020-02-19 15:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-02-20 14:13 ` Max Gurtovoy
2020-02-20 14:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-02-20 15:16 ` Max Gurtovoy
2020-02-20 15:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-02-20 16:29 ` Sagi Grimberg [this message]
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