[openib-general] Re: [PATCH][RFC][0/4] InfiniBand userspace verbs implementation

Timur Tabi timur.tabi at ammasso.com
Tue Apr 26 08:24:03 PDT 2005


Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> What doesn't work with that design are the braindead designed by comittee
> APIs in the RDMA world - but I don't think we should care about them too
> much.

I think you should.  The whole point behind RDMA is that these APIs exist and are being 
used by real-world applications.  You can't just ignore them because they're inconvenient. 
  If you're not willing to cater to these API's needs, then you may as well tell all the 
RDMA developers to forgot about Linux and port everything to Windows instead.

The APIs are here to stay, and the whole point behind this thread is to discuss how Linux 
can support them.

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Timur Tabi
Staff Software Engineer
timur.tabi at ammasso.com

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"I don't think duct tape will fix it."
      -- Ed Smylie, NASA engineer for Apollo 13



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