Re: [Nbd] NBD using SDP
- To: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...17...>
- Cc: nbd-general@lists.sourceforge.net, Wouter Verhelst <w@...112...>
- Subject: Re: [Nbd] NBD using SDP
- From: John Leidel <john.leidel@...17...>
- Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:51:32 -0500
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For anyone interested, I just did a quick fix for the latest set of
OpenFabrics code... they changed the address family on me...
On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 08:44 -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> On 10/16/07, Wouter Verhelst <w@...112...> wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 06:21:50PM -0500, John Leidel wrote:
> > > All... apologies for the random post...
> >
> > It's not random ;-)
> >
> > > sometime ago I created a simple patch set for NBD to directly utilize
> > > the RDMA capabilities of Infiniband via the Sockets Direct Protocol.
> >
> > What are the benefits of doing so? I guess I could be pursuaded to
> > accept this into nbd-tools mainline, but I'd really have to know what
> > these protocols do, and how they benefit NBD.
>
> NBD would be more performant on an Infiniband network because SDP
> allows more efficient use of the IB stack than if relying on IPoIB.
> The cpu overhead should be reduced and overall throughput increased.
>
> BTW, if you were to accept this wouldn't you just be patching the nbd
> source directly (as is indicated by John's tarball of patches)?
> Adding SDP support implies altering the socket address family to be
> AF_INET_OFFLOAD rather than AF_INIT. So SDP support could easily be
> made a configure/compile time thing.
>
> Mike
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