From: Tom Tucker <tom@opengridcomputing.com>
Subject: [RFC,PATCH 00/10] knfsd: RMDA Transport Driver v2
Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2007 18:02:58 -0500
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This patchset implements the NFS-RDMA transport driver for RDMA. It is 
a follow-up to the earlier patchset and reflects recommendations by 
various reviewers.  Most notable improvements are as follows:

- Moved all WR processing into a tasklet reducing the number of irqsave
  locks to 1. 

- Added support for RDMA_READ completion processing that avoids wait
  in an NFSD thread. 

- Integration with the transport switch patchset changes from SGI

- Support for dynamically adding listeners via writes to the portlist file

I looked at making the context allocation fixed. This would require 161 
pages of contexts for 32k wsize/rsize and the default RQ and SQ depths. 
Big data would drive this number up to 5152 pages. This seemed 
untenable to me. Maybe a pool shared across all mounts?

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Signed-off-by: Tom Tucker <tom@opengridcomputing.com>

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