Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422682AbWASXor (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 18:44:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422688AbWASXor (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 18:44:47 -0500 Received: from mx.pathscale.com ([64.160.42.68]:13723 "EHLO mx.pathscale.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422682AbWASXoq (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 18:44:46 -0500 Subject: Re: RFC: ipath ioctls and their replacements From: "Bryan O'Sullivan" To: Greg KH Cc: Andrew Morton , Roland Dreier , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, openib-general@openib.org In-Reply-To: <20060119225716.GB27689@kroah.com> References: <1137631411.4757.218.camel@serpentine.pathscale.com> <20060119025741.GC15706@kroah.com> <1137646957.25584.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060119053940.GB21467@kroah.com> <1137649988.25584.67.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060119225716.GB27689@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 15:44:19 -0800 Message-Id: <1137714259.22241.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 713 Lines: 18 On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 14:57 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > The RDMA-loving people need to get together and hammer out a proposal > that the network people can laugh at and shoot down all at once :) We are not really in the RDMA camp. Our facility looks more like "when this kind of message comes in, be sure that it shows up at this point in my address space", which does not match RDMA semantics. Also, RDMA's mother smells of elderberries, in my personal opinion.