[openib-general] how to choose appropriate ULPs for application

[Clem Cole]

The quick answer here is none of SDP, iSER/SRP or uDAPL for different
reasons on each case

kDAPL is the kernel API that is designed to handle a kernel application
such as NFS, Lustre or the like.  See:
	http://www.datcollaborative.org/kdapl.html

There is are already implementations of NFS/RDMA available:
	http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/nfs-rdma

This should give you some hints on how to a distrubuted file system
uses the kDAPL interface. 



-----Original Message-----
From: openib-general-bounces at openib.org [mailto:openib-general-bounces at openib.org]On Behalf Of wxg at ict.ac.cn
Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 9:26 AM
To: openib-general
Subject: [openib-general] how to choose appropriate ULPs for application


Hello！

    We plan to run lustre on InfiniBand. But now lustre does not support IB.
I know noting about the IB stack. So I think the IB Upper Layer Protocol(SDP, DAP) could be used to transport data for lustre. 
	But there are too many ULPs over IB. I know little about them. As far as I konw, iSER/SRP is for SCSI command transportation. So, it seems both SDP and uDAP are OK for my plan. I cant tell the difference between them. Which one is better, SDP or DAP? I don't konw how to choose?

	Any suggestion is appreciated!

　　

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Wang Xigui 王锡贵
2005-07-06
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