[openib-general] New uverbs ABI version

Arlin Davis ardavis at ichips.intel.com
Mon Sep 26 14:37:19 PDT 2005


Roland Dreier wrote:

>I just checked a change into subversion to implement the completion
>channel API I described last week.  This also cleans up some of the
>problems in the kernel error paths.
>
>These changes break both the kernel ABI and the userspace library
>API, so to use the new code, you will have to update your kernel,
>libibverbs, libmthca, and whatever application you are running on top
>of libibverbs.  The new libibverbs will work with all old kernels, so
>it should be fine to update.
>
>I'll post patches to update MVAPICH and Open MPI to work with the new
>libibverbs.  I didn't try to fix uDAPL, because some thought probably
>needs to go into how to use completion channels most efficiently.
>  
>

I will take care of uDAPL.

-arlin




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