Bug 731876

Summary:	Pick up SDP from OFED
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	IBM Bug Proxy <bugproxy>
Component:	distribution	Assignee:	RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	7.0	CC:	dledford, jjarvis, nobody+PNT0273897, notting, sbest
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	7.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Bug Blocks:	728045, 728571

Description IBM Bug Proxy 2011-08-18 20:32:05 UTC

1. Feature Overview:
Feature Id: [73770]
a. Name of Feature: Pick up SDP from OFED
b. Feature Description

Pick up SDP (Sockets Direct Protocol) from relevant OFED release

2. Feature Details:
Sponsor: LTC
Architectures:  ppc64, x86, x86_64, 

Arch Specificity: purely common code
Affects Kernel Modules: Yes
Delivery Mechanism: Direct from Community
Category: device driver
Request Type: Driver - Feature from Vendor
d. Upstream Acceptance: Submitted
Sponsor Priority P3
f. Severity: normal
IBM Confidential: No
Code Contribution: 3rd party code
g. Component Version Target: ---

3. Business Case
Several customers want to use SDP. SDP provides existing socket applications to be used as is, or with minimal changes and also gain performance advantages through in-kernel RDMA.

This becomes even more important in a virtual environment, as performance would be critical factor.

4. Primary contact at Red Hat:
John Jarvis, jjarvis

5. Primary contacts at Partner:
Project Management Contact:
Michael L. Hohnbaum, hbaum.com

Technical contact(s):
Pradeep Satyanarayana, pradeep.com

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2011-08-18 20:42:06 UTC

This was intentionally dropped in RHEL 6.

Comment 2 Doug Ledford 2011-08-21 20:08:54 UTC

This will not be picked up unless the SDP protocol makes it into Linus' kernel.