Re: Linux and system area networks

[Roland Dreier]

    Pekka> If you used sockets, I believe the normal way to use SAN
    Pekka> boards is to just make them look like network cards with a
    Pekka> large MTU Sure it works, but it's not very efficient :) (I
    Pekka> have to admit I've not played with that kind of toys at
    Pekka> all, though)

We seem to have come full circle.  My original question was about
providing a better way for sockets applications to take advantage of
SAN hardware.  W2K Datacenter introduces "Winsock Direct," which will
bypass the protocol stack when appropriate.  The Infiniband people are
working on a "Sockets Direct" standard, which is a similar idea.  No
one seems to care about this for Linux.

Roland