[ewg] CM

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Vidhya Sriram Bhat wrote:
>
> Lamprey Networks is trying to port the DTA application to the OFED 
> stack. The DTA (Device Test Application) Server is a simple 
> transport-layer test application implemented on the Channel Adapter. 
> The DTA Server app can receive commands from a DTA client app via the 
> Command Channel (GSI) and execute those commands resulting in 
> deterministic behavior on one or more data channels. The components 
> needed for the DTA are basically the Channel Interface, CM/SIDR 
> functionality and GSI.
>
> As a first step in porting the DTA to the OFED, we are working on 
> establishing a basic CM flow between a DTA client and DTA Server. We 
> already have a functioning DTA/CM client implemented on a non-OFED 
> stack. We are now looking to implement the DTA server side on the OFED 
> stack. The DTA Server has to act as a passive CM server (receive CM 
> Requests and create data channels etc). We have looked at the example 
> ‘c’ files in the ‘libibcm’ project. Are there any other 
> resources/examples that we can use to implement a basic passive CM 
> server?
>
> Thanks
>
> Vidhya
>
>
Nimrod from Mellanox is also looking into this - maybe he has some info 
for you

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