linux/net/smc/Kconfig
Ursula Braun ac7138746e smc: establish new socket family
* enable smc module loading and unloading
 * register new socket family
 * basic smc socket creation and deletion
 * use backing TCP socket to run CLC (Connection Layer Control)
   handshake of SMC protocol
 * Setup for infiniband traffic is implemented in follow-on patches.
   For now fallback to TCP socket is always used.

Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <ubraun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Utz Bacher <utz.bacher@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-01-09 16:07:38 -05:00

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config SMC
tristate "SMC socket protocol family"
depends on INET && INFINIBAND
---help---
SMC-R provides a "sockets over RDMA" solution making use of
RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) technology to upgrade
AF_INET TCP connections transparently.
The Linux implementation of the SMC-R solution is designed as
a separate socket family SMC.
Select this option if you want to run SMC socket applications