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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/Kconfig | 21 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/Kconfig b/drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/Kconfig new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..81b70a3eeb --- /dev/null +++ b/drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/Kconfig @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +config RDMA_SIW + tristate "Software RDMA over TCP/IP (iWARP) driver" + depends on INET && INFINIBAND + depends on INFINIBAND_VIRT_DMA + select LIBCRC32C + select CRYPTO + select CRYPTO_CRC32C + help + This driver implements the iWARP RDMA transport over + the Linux TCP/IP network stack. It enables a system with a + standard Ethernet adapter to interoperate with a iWARP + adapter or with another system running the SIW driver. + (See also RXE which is a similar software driver for RoCE.) + + The driver interfaces with the Linux RDMA stack and + implements both a kernel and user space RDMA verbs API. + The user space verbs API requires a support + library named libsiw which is loaded by the generic user + space verbs API, libibverbs. To implement RDMA over + TCP/IP, the driver further interfaces with the Linux + in-kernel TCP socket layer. |