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

From: Steve Wise
Date: Mon Aug 21 2017 - 15:15:07 EST


>
> 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] (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-
> us/library/hh536346.aspx).
>
> 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?

Thanks,

Steve.