Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:53:00 -0600 (Mountain Daylight Time)
From: Marc Aurele La France <tsi@ualberta.ca>
To: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
        Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
        Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>,
        "Pekka Savola (ipv6)" <pekkas@netcore.fi>,
        James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>,
        Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: RFC: MTU for serving NFS on Infiniband
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On Fri, 27 Aug 2010, Roland Dreier wrote:

> By the way, for the original poster: is using NFS/RDMA a possibility?
> That might give even better performance than any config of IPoIB if you
> have an InfiniBand fabric anyway.

Yes, NFS/RDMA is a possibility I need to look at as well.

Thanks.

Marc.

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