[openib-general] kDAPL: ready for gen2/trunk/ inclusion?

[James Lentini]

On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Sean Hefty wrote:

>> This would also be a good time to get NFSoRDMA ported to kDAPL as the
>> API is unlikely to change too much in the future.
>
> I'm not as sure about the API.  Is it necessary to abstract away 
> QPs, CQs, etc. from the user? (The answer may depend on the 
> intersection of the Infiniband and RNIC APIs.)  Is it possible to 
> just extract out the kDAPL connection semantics and layer it 
> directly over verbs?

In addition to the streamlined connection management interface, kDAPL 
also provides a unified event model. This is another feature that the 
verbs do not provide.

> Thus an app could talk directly to verbs and the kDAPL connection 
> manager, rather than verbs and the kernel CM and SA client modules.
>
> - Sean
>
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