[ofa-general] OpenIB development help

[Bharath Ramesh]

* Roland Dreier (rdreier at cisco.com) wrote:
>  > There are many aspects that one still doesnt understand. I was just
>  > wondering if the development community could help me in providing me
>  > with some resources or pointers so that I can better understand on how
>  > to use ibverbs. I am more interested in using the reliable datagram
>  > transport provided by ibverbs.
> 
> Unfortunately, no existing hardware supports RD (reliable datagram),
> and even the API in libibverbs is not complete.
> 
> Anyway, the libibverbs source contains some example code in examples/,
> and there are several other packages that have other examples, eg
> librdmacm, the performance tests in OFED, etc.
> 
> If you have specific questions then please ask them on the mailing
> list.  It's very hard to answer a general query like "please teach me
> how to use IB" but specific issues are easy to address.
> 

Thanks for replying to mail. I have a some basic understanding of IB. I
have gone through some of the example code in the example directory and
OFED performance test. I noticed that every one of those examples used
TCP to exchange information regarding lid, psn and qpn. My question is
basically that is there any other way to exchange this information using
only IB. Since no hardware supports RD, I have to bite the bullet and
use RC.

Thanks,

Bharath

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Bharath Ramesh       <bramesh at vt.edu>       http://people.cs.vt.edu/~bramesh