Buildbot cifs/smb3 testing improvements

[Tom Talpey]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-cifs-owner at vger.kernel.org <linux-cifs-owner at vger.kernel.org> On
> Behalf Of Aurélien Aptel
> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 5:21 AM
> To: Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>; ronnie sahlberg
> <ronniesahlberg at gmail.com>; Steve French <smfrench at gmail.com>
> Cc: CIFS <linux-cifs at vger.kernel.org>; samba-technical <samba-
> technical at lists.samba.org>
> Subject: Re: Buildbot cifs/smb3 testing improvements
> 
> Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org> writes:
> > So far I wasn't able to use the upstream cifs.ko with smbdirect with any
> > kind of RDMA driver at all against Windows.
> 
> I've managed to test it last year on actual hardware against
> Windows. You should ask Long Li, he is still working on it.

FYI, the Soft iWARP code is very close to being ready to go upstream, it may provide another (and less buggy) test opportunity than Soft RoCE. I'm at the Open Fabrics Workshop right now with Bernard Metzler, the SIW author, and can chat with him and other RDMA maintainers about this.

https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-rdma/msg75718.html

Tom.