MacOS has supported RDMA over thunderbolt since March 19th.

wrs an hour ago | parent | next [-]

That is just RDMA itself and seems to be aimed directly at distributed inference (no surprise there!). Now they need to update the SMB driver to make use of it.

	▲	geerlingguy 32 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, raw RDMA is one thing, making sure other protocols can use it is another... hopefully Apple gets there, but right now SMB with RDMA is probably a tiny, tiny niche. I do wonder what Apple's custom-built servers are running for networking. I wish they still made Mac Pro-level chassis specifically for better IO. Thunderbolt 5 is nice, but far inferior to a PCIe x16 slot (which can hit 400 Gbps networking) nowadays.

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dlcarrier 43 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Is RDMA something worth looking into for connecting two random Linux computers? I've been extremely underwhelmed by the stability and performance of my NFS shares.

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olavgg 33 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Yes, nfs with rdma will increase your performance significantly.

	▲	gorkish 23 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		If your storage devices are native PCIe and your network is actually fast enough and your nics and switches have the proper hardware and driver support and your switches are properly configured and your nfs client and server configurations are tweaked just so, and you hold your face in just the right position The perf is amazing

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esseph 29 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

NFS 4.1 / 4.2?