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From: Rick Macklem <rick.macklem@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 15:56:02 -0700
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Subject: RFC: RDMA in software driver?
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Hi,

Does anyone know if a driver like Linux's rxe exists for FreeBSD?

or

Has anyone looked at creating a software driver for RDMA
similar to what is in Linux called rxe (I think?).

or

Does anyone know how easily the Linux rxe drver could
be ported into FreeBSD? (Using the Linux KPI or ??).

I am interested in looking at getting NFS to use RDMA
in FreeBSD and would need some way to test/debug it.

Thanks in advance for any comments, rick