RE: [Patch v2 00/19] CIFS: Implement SMBDirect

[Long Li]

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> Subject: RE: [Patch v2 00/19] CIFS: Implement SMBDirect
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> > From: Long Li <longli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Starting with SMB2 dialect 3.0, Microsoft introduced SMBDirect
> > transport
> protocol
> > for transferring upper layer (SMB2) payload over RDMA via Infiniband,
> > RoCE or iWARP. The prococol is published in [MS-SMBD]
> >
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> > The patch v2 added RDMA read/write via memory registration, and
> > addressed feedbacks on v1.
> >
> 
> Hey Long,
> 
> What testing have you done with this on the various rdma transports?  Does
> it work over IB, RoCE, and iWARP providers?

Hi Steve,

Currently all the tests have been done over Infiniband. We haven't tested on RoCE or iWARP, but planned to do it in the following weeks.

Long

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Steve.
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