From: "Mike Snitzer" Subject: Re: Merge plans for RPC/RDMA? (Was: Re: [NFS] [PATCH 000 of 14] knfsd: Preparation for IPv6 support in NFS server.) Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 20:04:10 -0400 Message-ID: <170fa0d20704131704y13151149n817cd698e22781c8@mail.gmail.com> References: <170fa0d20704131347u4a28b5d1h1959227980449fbf@mail.gmail.com> <46200822.5060800@oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Cc: "Roland Dreier" , NeilBrown , "Andrew Morton" , nfs@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: chuck.lever@oracle.com Return-path: In-Reply-To: <46200822.5060800@oracle.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 4/13/07, Chuck Lever wrote: > Mike Snitzer wrote: > > On 2/2/07, Chuck Lever wrote: > >> Roland Dreier wrote: > >> > > They are mostly from Chuck Level and make preparating for IPv6 > >> support > >> > > in the NFS server. > >> > > They are *not* for 2.6.20, but should be ok for .21. > >> > > >> > Out of curiousity, does this patch series reduce the delta between the > >> > NFS/RDMA tree and mainline Linux? In other words does this bring > >> > NFS/RDMA closer to merging? > >> > >> Hi Roland- > >> > >> The client side support for an RPC/RDMA module is almost completely > >> integrated into mainline. There is still a minimal set of patches > >> required to support alternate transports in loadable kernel modules > >> which Trond has indicated he will integrate when the RPC/RDMA transport > >> is ready to be integrated. > > > > Hi Chuck, > > > > I must be missing something because I don't see _any_ trace of the > > core RPC over RDMA support (xprtrdma et al), your RPC Transport > > Switch, or any of the other supporting changes in mainline. Could > > you, or others, please clarify the plan for merging RPC/RDMA? > > The RPC transport switch patches are almost fully integrated into > mainline. The xprtrdma piece is what is not there yet. OK, has the xprtrdma piece been reviewed by the community? What, if anything, is preventing the code from being included in -mm for wider testing? Has xprtrdma inclusion/progress been discussed on some other mailing list? Any insight would be appreciated.