[openfabrics-ewg] [openib-general] OFED 1.1 release - schedule and features

[Jeff Broughton]

Mike,
 
The whole purpose of SDP is to make sockets go faster without having to
have the applications modified.  This is what the customers want.  I've
heard this time and time again, across a wide spectrum of customers.
 
Modifying the sockets API is just defining yet another RDMA API, and we
have so many already....  
 
-Jeff


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	From: openfabrics-ewg-bounces at openib.org
[mailto:openfabrics-ewg-bounces at openib.org] On Behalf Of Michael Krause
	Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 9:23 AM
	To: Tziporet Koren; Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen)
	Cc: OpenFabricsEWG; openib
	Subject: Re: [openfabrics-ewg] [openib-general] OFED 1.1 release
- schedule and features
	
	
	At 12:59 AM 7/12/2006, Tziporet Koren wrote:
	

		Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen) wrote:
		> For SDP, I would like to see "improved stability"
(maybe you have this 
		> in mind under "beta quality"), also how about "AIO
support"?  The rest 
		> of the list looks good.
		>  
		Yes - beta quality means improved stability.
		AIO is not planed for 1.1 (schedule issue). If needed we
can add it to 1.2


	Would be nice if people thought about implementing the Sockets
API Extensions from the OpenGroup.  They provide explicit memory
management and async communications which will allow SDP performance to
be fully exploited.   The benefits go beyond what is found in AIO or on
other OS such as Windows.  If one were to extend slightly to have
explicit RDMA Read and Write from the Sockets API, then it would be
quite possible to eliminate SDP entirely for new applications leaving
SDP strictly for legacy Sockets environments.
	
	Mike
	
	
	

		Tziporet
		
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