[ofa-general] Re: adding a purely software based RDMA driver

Richard Frank richard.frank at oracle.com
Thu Apr 30 11:41:35 PDT 2009


Who does this soft iWARP solution compare to the work done at Ohio 
Supercomputer Center ?

Is that stack also available ?

www.osc.edu/research/network_file/projects/*iwarp*/papers/dalessandro_ipdps2006_cac.pdf


> At 06:08 AM 4/30/2009, Bernard Metzler wrote:
>   
>> Roland, Or,
>>
>> absolutely right. we do not intend nor are willing or entitled to dump
>> a 'softiwarp product' here but are still in the internal process of
>> getting something open sourced soon - to be reviewed by the community
>> and eventually addded to mainline Linux kernel when appropriate.
>> Philip was asking, since building an rpm for the OFED installation
>> procedure might be helpful for our internal usage at this point in
>> time - but it is not at high priority. so, lets discuss the code, if
>> it is here.
>>     
>
> I think this is a wonderful place to discuss and review any such code!
> Same as for other RDMA providers, of any stripe.
>
> Do you expect any major delays in being able to release it? I, for one,
> am eagerly awaiting it. ;-)
>
> Tom.
>
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