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Even with sockets, sharing the FD is frought with problems if more than one process attempts to read the same socket. There are ioctls to allow you to peek but it gets pretty messy. <BR>
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As soon as you add RDMA into the mix it gets even more ugly. What do you do to the memory regions you've registered?<BR>
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It's much better to give all processes their own socket or QP. <BR>
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If you do want to see the same data stream, then use multicast addresses. Each receiver then has their own, independent sockets/QP's. It does not solve the RDMA issues since you are restricted to unreliable datagrams but it does solve the sharing problems<BR>
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You should also look at RDS. This is a more elegant approach of sending one2many. As long as the receiving socket it there, it guarantees delivery.<BR>
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Richard<BR>
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On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 16:00 -0800, Woodruff, Robert J wrote:
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No. If you call fork()/exec(), the new process would need
To re-establish a new connection, not like sockets where
an FD can be inherited.
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From: Greg Kerr [<A HREF="mailto:kerr.g@husky.neu.edu">mailto:kerr.g@husky.neu.edu</A>]
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 3:58 PM
To: Woodruff, Robert J
Cc: <A HREF="mailto:ewg@lists.openfabrics.org">ewg@lists.openfabrics.org</A>; Kapil Arya
Subject: Re: [ewg] Sharing Infiniband connection with forked child
This is really helpful, thank you.
Out of curiosity, do you know, if I call exec() can the new process still
access the opened connection? Obviously any data structures setup (such as an
ibv_device or ibv_context) would be destroyed from memory, but perhaps I could
still access the connection somehow or maybe I serialized the old structures.
Thanks
On Thursday, January 13, 2011 06:45:16 pm Woodruff, Robert J wrote:
> Greg wrote,
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> >I've been working with Infiniband recently and am relatively unfamiliar
> >with the technology. I was hoping someone on this list could answer a
> >question for me.
> >
> >When an Infiniband connection is established between a client and
> >server, when the client fork()s into a child process, can the child
> >process share the existing connection with the parent process
> >(as is the case with shared sockets)?
>
> No. that is not allowed. The child can create new resources and
> establish it's own communication, but it cannot inherit the parent's
> connection.
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