^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 1) config RDMA_SIW
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 2) tristate "Software RDMA over TCP/IP (iWARP) driver"
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 3) depends on INET && INFINIBAND && LIBCRC32C
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 4) depends on INFINIBAND_VIRT_DMA
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 5) help
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 6) This driver implements the iWARP RDMA transport over
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 7) the Linux TCP/IP network stack. It enables a system with a
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 8) standard Ethernet adapter to interoperate with a iWARP
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 9) adapter or with another system running the SIW driver.
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 10) (See also RXE which is a similar software driver for RoCE.)
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 11)
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 12) The driver interfaces with the Linux RDMA stack and
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 13) implements both a kernel and user space RDMA verbs API.
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 14) The user space verbs API requires a support
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 15) library named libsiw which is loaded by the generic user
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 16) space verbs API, libibverbs. To implement RDMA over
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 17) TCP/IP, the driver further interfaces with the Linux
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 18) in-kernel TCP socket layer.