Re: [net-next][PATCH v2 01/13] RDS: Drop stale iWARP RDMA transport

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Sun Feb 28 2016 - 04:05:57 EST


On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 06:19:38PM -0800, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
> RDS iWarp support code has become stale and non testable. As
> indicated earlier, am dropping the support for it.
>
> If new iWarp user(s) shows up in future, we can adapat the RDS IB
> transprt for the special RDMA READ sink case. iWarp needs an MR
> for the RDMA READ sink.

Please take a look at the RDMA RW API series I posted yesterday - if
you can adopt RDS to that you should get iWarp support for free.

But having two different codebases for IB/RoCE vs iWarp was always a bad
idea, so great to see the second one retired!

Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>