[openib-general] Re: [PATCH] rdma_lat-09 and results

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Quoting r. Ronald G. Minnich <rminnich at lanl.gov>:
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] rdma_lat-09 and results
> 
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> On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
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> > I know bproc supports dlopen from remote applications, but
> > what about glob() on a remote directory?  Does that work from a blade?
> 
> I'm not totally sure what you're saying here but: 
> 
> if you have a .so and you need it on a bproc slave node, you can configure 
> bproc so that the .so will be on that node once the node boots. 
> 
> If you only want the .so on there occasionally, or not at all, you can use 
> a remote file system of some sort to make it available. 
> 
> Does that answer the question or did I miss something?
> 
> thanks
> 
> ron
> 

I had this impression that I can have a .so not being present on the slave
at boot, and then dlopen could pull it across the network with some
custom protocol without going over NFS.

And I was asking, if so, what other calls can do this besides dlopen?

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MST