[ewg] Getting started

[Paul Grun]

Good point Woody, thank you for the clarification.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Woodruff, Robert J [mailto:robert.j.woodruff at intel.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 1:39 PM
> To: Paul Grun; 'Paulo R. Panhoto'; ewg at lists.openfabrics.org
> Subject: RE: [ewg] Getting started
> 
> Paul wrote,
> > The Verbs API is 'transport agnostic', meaning that an application can
> > use the Verbs API regardless of whether the underlying transport is
> > InfiniBand over an IB wire, InfiniBand over an Ethernet wire (i.e.
> > RoCE), or RDMA over a TCP/IP/Ethernet network (iWARP).
> 
> This is true to some degree. There are some things in InfiniBand (like
> immediate data, atomics, UD mode) that are not in iWarp, so if you want to
> write a verbs application that will run over either transport, you need to
> take some care to only use the verbs features that are common to both.