[ewg] GPUDirect Support

[sebastien dugue]

  Hi Gilad,

On Wed, 2 Feb 2011 13:55:46 -0800
Jagga Soorma <jagga13 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Gilad,
> 
> Yes, I would definitely need this.  Can you please share the code and how to
> enable this functionality.

  I second this. as we're running our own kernel we've been unable so far to
use GPUDirect because of the lack of sources.

  Is this GPUDirect stuff to remain proprietary or will it be opensourced?

  Regards,

  Sébastien.

> 
> Thanks,
> J
> 
> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Gilad Shainer <Shainer at mellanox.com> wrote:
> 
> > It is not yet in the distro. If you need the code, please send me an email.
> >
> > Gilad
> >
> > ------------------------------
> >  *From*: ewg-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org
> > *To*: ewg at lists.openfabrics.org
> > *Sent*: Wed Feb 02 13:03:24 2011
> > *Subject*: [ewg] GPUDirect Support
> > Hey Guys,
> >
> > I am trying to enable GPUDirect support in our environment and I have built
> > OFED release 1.5.2.  I was expecting the following directory to be created
> > but don't see this directory and the files within that would help me enable
> > gpudirect:
> >
> > /sys/module/ib_core/parameters
> >
> > The parameter file I am looking for is
> > /sys/module/ib_core/parameters/gpu_direct_enable.  Any ideas as to why the
> > parameters directory is missing altogether?  Anyone on this list have any
> > experience with this.
> >
> > Here is some information about my environment:
> >
> > OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.4 (Tikanga)
> > kernel: 2.6.18-164.el5
> > hca info:
> > --
> > Image type:      ConnectX
> > FW Version:      2.7.9100
> > Rom Info:        type=PXE  version=3.2.0 devid=26438 proto=VPI
> > Device ID:       26438
> > Chip Revision:   B0
> > Description:     Node             Port1            Port2            Sys
> > image
> > GUIDs:           78e7d10300218884 78e7d10300218885 78e7d10300218886
> > 78e7d10300218887
> > MACs:                                 78e7d1218884     78e7d1218885
> > Board ID:         (HP_0200000003)
> > VSD:
> > PSID:            HP_0200000003
> > --
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -J
> >