[PATCH 1/1] RDMA over Fibre Channel

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Wed Apr 18 03:22:23 PDT 2018


On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 02:42:40AM -0700, muneendra.kumar at broadcom.com wrote:
> Eventhough it is inspired from the Soft RoCE driver, the underlying
> transport layer is FC-NVMe (short for 'NVMe over fibre channel').
> The request, response and completion state machines in the driver
> have been heavily modified to adapt to the Exchange based Data
> transfer mechanism of Fibre channel.

That sounds like a bad joke.  Please stop abusing the NVMe code for this
otherwise reasonable idea.  You should be able to layer this over plain
FCP just fine.



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