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RDS: Drop stale iWARP RDMA transport

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RDS iWarp support code has become stale and non testable. As
indicated earlier, am dropping the support for it.

If new iWarp user(s) shows up in future, we can adapat the RDS IB
transprt for the special RDMA READ sink case. iWarp needs an MR
for the RDMA READ sink.

Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <ssantosh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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2016-03-01 15:20:42 -08:00
committed by David S. Miller
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@@ -19,9 +19,7 @@ to N*N if you use a connection-oriented socket transport like TCP.
RDS is not Infiniband-specific; it was designed to support different
transports. The current implementation used to support RDS over TCP as well
as IB. Work is in progress to support RDS over iWARP, and using DCE to
guarantee no dropped packets on Ethernet, it may be possible to use RDS over
UDP in the future.
as IB.
The high-level semantics of RDS from the application's point of view are