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1config SMC
2 tristate "SMC socket protocol family"
3 depends on INET && INFINIBAND
4 ---help---
5 SMC-R provides a "sockets over RDMA" solution making use of
6 RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) technology to upgrade
7 AF_INET TCP connections transparently.
8 The Linux implementation of the SMC-R solution is designed as
9 a separate socket family SMC.
10
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11 Warning: SMC will expose all memory for remote reads and writes
12 once a connection is established. Don't enable this option except
13 for tightly controlled lab environment.
14
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16
17config SMC_DIAG
18 tristate "SMC: socket monitoring interface"
19 depends on SMC
20 ---help---
21 Support for SMC socket monitoring interface used by tools such as
22 smcss.
23
24 if unsure, say Y.