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

[Ira Weiny]

On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:34:09 +0300
Sasha Khapyorsky <sashak at voltaire.com> 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.
> 

Yes I think it should be part of the diags tree, however at this point I did
not want to break any of the existing tools until I get some feedback.  I have
done quite a bit of testing and I am pretty sure that all functionality of
ibnetdiscover is preserved.  Next step is to integrate and find a home for
it...  ;-)

Ira