[ewg] libibverbs without an HCA

[Tziporet Koren]

On 6/1/2010 2:39 PM, Albert Strasheim wrote:
> 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
>
>    
These kind of questions should be addressed by the Linux RDMA List 
(already CC)

Tziporet