[ofa-general] Getting Started with RDMA

[Adrien Guillon]

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 7:02 AM, Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz at voltaire.com> wrote:

> Please note that you have to have a netdevice up and running for the IP
> subnet addresses you would be using with the rdma-cm. In the IB case, this
> means IPoIB and in the iWARP case, it means a network device set by the
> iWARP HW provider, in the current implementations, it means Gb Ethernet
> devices.
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> Or.
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If I run IPoIB, do the RDMA operations involve the kernel?  How high is the
cost of abstraction to use RMDA with IPoIB on infiniband?

Thanks,

AJ
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