[openib-general] RE: IBDM and IBMgtSim Proposal Comments

[Hal Rosenstock]

Hi Eitan,

On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 16:14, Eitan Zahavi wrote:
> The point is that it is better to write user level code that is not
> "performance critical" in a way that is not tailored to the actual
> driver/Access layer.

Have you looked at the umad and mad libraries ? These are not IBAL.

>  I think OpenSM vendor layer was proven to be adequate for this
> purpose. 

and so have the umad and mad libraries used in the OpenIB Linux stack.

> It should be much simpler to port the existing tools on top of the
> osm_vendor_api.h rather then porting them to IBAL api.

Are you proposing to port any applications needed from OpenIB Linux to
the OSM vendor layer ?

-- Hal