Re: New List: rdma@cisco.com: to discuss RDMA

[Matt Wakeley <matt_wakeley@agilent.com>]

"TALBOTT,GLENN (HP-Roseville,ex1)" wrote:

> Julo,
>
> Sorry to take so long to get back to you on this question, a week of
> vacation makes it close to impossible to get caught up.
>
> To answer your question: I see no difference between the RDMA READ and the
> R2T (other than the fact that the RDMA READ passes some addressing
> information rather than just a simple Ready indication).

R2T passes more than just a ready condition.  It passes the context that is now
"ready" (the task ID), the offset from the start of the I/O to transfer, and the
number of bytes to transfer.

-Matt