[ewg] libibverbs without an HCA

[Albert Strasheim]

Hello all

Having just reviewed the various on-host shared memory mechanisms
available in Linux and being quite unimpressed, I have the following
question:

Has anyone considered making a kernel and userspace driver so that
libibverbs can be used on a single machine without any Infiniband
hardware?

The Verbs API seems like a very nice way to handle shared memory
between processes where the number of shared buffers can vary in size
and quantity.

Regards

Albert