svn commit: r46549 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Wed Apr 15 00:32:06 UTC 2015

Author: bjk
Date: Wed Apr 15 00:32:05 2015
New Revision: 46549
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/46549

Log:
  Add iSCSI Extensions for RDMA report
  
  Approved by:	hrs (mentor, implicit)

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml	Tue Apr 14 23:37:05 2015	(r46548)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml	Wed Apr 15 00:32:05 2015	(r46549)
@@ -1593,4 +1593,57 @@ WITHOUT_FORTH=y</pre>
 
     <sponsor>DARPA/AFRL</sponsor>
   </project>
+
+  <project cat='proj'>
+    <title>Mellanox iSCSI Extensions for RDMA (iSER) Support</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Max</given>
+	  <common>Gurtovoy</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>maxg at mellanox.com</email>
+      </person>
+
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Sagi</given>
+	  <common>Grimberg</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>sagig at mellanox.com</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <links></links>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>Building on the new in-kernel iSCSI initiator stack
+	released in &os; 10.0, and the recently added iSCSI offload
+	interface, Mellanox Technologies has begun developing iSCSI
+	extensions for RDMA (iSER) initiator support to enable efficient
+	data movement using the hardware offload capabilities of
+	Mellanox's 10, 40, 56, and 100 gigabit IB/Ethernet adapters.</p>
+
+      <p>Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) has been shown to
+	have a great value for storage applications.  RDMA
+	infrastructure provides benefits such as zero-copy, CPU offload,
+	reliable transport, fabric consolidation and many more.  The
+	iSER protocol eliminates some of the bottlenecks in the
+	traditional iSCSI/TCP stack, provides low latency and high
+	throughput, and is well suited for latency-aware workloads.</p>
+
+      <p>This work includes a new ICL module that implements the
+	iSER initiator.  The iSCSI stack is slightly modified to support
+	some extra features such as asynchronous IO completions,
+	unmapped data buffers, and data-transfer offloads.  The user will
+	be able to choose iSER as the iSCSI transport with iscsictl.</p>
+
+      <p> The project is in its initial implementation phase.  The
+	code will be released under the BSD license and is expected to
+	be completed later this year.  </p>
+    </body>
+
+    <sponsor>Mellanox Technologies</sponsor>
+  </project>
 </report>
