Status query: SMB Direct in Samba

[Ralph Boehme]

Hi Chris,

cf https://samba.plus/stf-project

Cheers!
-slow

On 11/25/24 9:24 PM, Christopher R. Hertel via samba-technical wrote:
> Hi, all.
> 
> I received an inquiry from a commercial vendor regarding SMB Direct in
> Samba, so I went digging through the most recent documentation just to see
> where things stand.
> 
> I know that Multichannel was moved from Experimental to Enabled-by-default
> back in 2021 (4.15 release), and that SMB Direct requires Multichannel.  I
> also found presentations from 2018 through 2020, all about implementation
> plans.  I didn't find a definitive "it works now" statement regarding SMB
> Direct, though I see that we detect/support RDMA in the interface code.
> 
> I poked through the wiki...
> 
> Do we have an authoritative statement about support for SMB Direct and how
> it is implemented?  If we do, please hit me with the clue-bat and point me
> in the right direction.  I'd like to write it up if it hasn't been done already.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Chris -)-----
> 

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