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class=359524116-12072006>Mike,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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size=2><SPAN class=359524116-12072006>The whole purpose of SDP is to make
sockets go faster without having to have the applications modified. This
is what the customers want. I've heard this time and time again, across a
wide spectrum of customers.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=359524116-12072006>Modifying the sockets API is just defining yet another
RDMA API, and we have so many already.... </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=359524116-12072006>-Jeff</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> openfabrics-ewg-bounces@openib.org
[mailto:openfabrics-ewg-bounces@openib.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Michael
Krause<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, July 12, 2006 9:23 AM<BR><B>To:</B> Tziporet
Koren; Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen)<BR><B>Cc:</B> OpenFabricsEWG;
openib<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [openfabrics-ewg] [openib-general] OFED 1.1
release - schedule and features<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV><FONT size=3>At 12:59 AM 7/12/2006, Tziporet Koren wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite">Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen)
wrote:<BR>> For SDP, I would like to see "improved stability" (maybe you
have this <BR>> in mind under "beta quality"), also how about "AIO
support"? The rest <BR>> of the list looks good.<BR>>
<BR>Yes - beta quality means improved stability.<BR>AIO is not planed for
1.1 (schedule issue). If needed we can add it to
1.2</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Would be nice if people thought about implementing
the Sockets API Extensions from the OpenGroup. They provide explicit
memory management and async communications which will allow SDP performance to
be fully exploited. The benefits go beyond what is found in AIO or
on other OS such as Windows. If one were to extend slightly to have
explicit RDMA Read and Write from the Sockets API, then it would be quite
possible to eliminate SDP entirely for new applications leaving SDP strictly
for legacy Sockets environments.<BR><BR>Mike<BR><BR><BR>
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