[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH RFC] Create a new library "libibnetdisc"

[Tziporet Koren]

Sasha Khapyorsky wrote:
> Hi Ira,
>
> On 16:09 Fri 27 Jun     , Ira Weiny wrote:
>   
>> I have been wanted to do this for some time and ever since mentioning it to
>> Sasha at Sonoma have worked on it in my "spare" time...  ;-)
>>
>> This creates an ibnetdiscover library.  It seems as time goes on that more and
>> more people have tried to "print" something from ibnetdiscover to get that data
>> out with some parser.  I figure it should be available from a library.  I have
>> only written test programs "ibnetdisctest" and "iblinkinfotest" to prototype
>> performance.  Also the interface is a bit rought around the edges but all the
>> data is there.
>>
>> At this point I have some pretty good results from iblinkinfotest (~80%
>> faster!)
>>
>> So I wanted to get opinions on where this should go.
>>     
>
> Do you think it should be a separate package? I thought rather about
> having it in infiniband-diags so the tools there will use it.
>
>   
I think its a good idea

Tziporet