FW: [openib-general] Minutes from DAPL BOF at OpenIB Workshop

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 04:50:34PM +0200, Yaron Haviv wrote:
> Just to add there is a Lustre NAL over kDAPL in development

As mention before we don't care about Lustre as it's not freely
available.

> And another grate benefit of kDAPL is the simplification of the Verbs &
> Access Layer API, making the ULP's simpler to implement, where a lot of
> common functionality is done by a shared library (kDAPL) 
> And with a socket like connection establishment flow, etc'

shared code is always a good thing.  But designing code to be shared
for not yet existing consumers can end up in a big mess very soon - 
as can be seen very well from the DAPL example.