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Subject:    Re: [PATCH-for-9.1 v2 3/3] block/gluster: Remove RDMA protocol handling
From:       Thomas Huth <thuth () redhat ! com>
Date:       2024-03-28 17:54:50
Message-ID: 641d176e-7990-4bb3-a39d-518c976cb059 () redhat ! com
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On 28/03/2024 14.02, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> GlusterFS+RDMA has been deprecated 8 years ago in commit
> 0552ff2465 ("block/gluster: deprecate rdma support"):
> 
>    gluster volfile server fetch happens through unix and/or tcp,
>    it doesn't support volfile fetch over rdma. The rdma code may
>    actually mislead, so to make sure things do not break, for now
>    we fallback to tcp when requested for rdma, with a warning.
> 
>    If you are wondering how this worked all these days, its the
>    gluster libgfapi code which handles anything other than unix
>    transport as socket/tcp, sad but true.
> 
> Besides, the whole RDMA subsystem was deprecated in commit
> e9a54265f5 ("hw/rdma: Deprecate the pvrdma device and the rdma
> subsystem") released in v8.2.
> 
> Cc: Prasanna Kumar Kalever <prasanna.kalever@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
> ---
>   docs/system/device-url-syntax.rst.inc  |  4 +--
>   docs/system/qemu-block-drivers.rst.inc |  1 -
>   block/gluster.c                        | 39 --------------------------
>   3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
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