FW: [openib-general] Minutes from DAPL BOF at OpenIB Workshop

[Dan Bar Dov]

> 
> > We need the same API on all platforms.
> 
> I don't know who "we" here is, but we as the kernel developer 
> community certainly disagree.

So how do you describe scsi mid layer?
Scsi mid layer is exaclty a unifying API that hides the specific hardware device drivers from the upper layer abstractions.
The kdapl model is identical to the scsi model - a single in-kernel API that hides different hardware specific implementations of RDMA.

Dan

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