[openib-general] putting in dead wood for DAPL and similar abomination
James Lentini
jlentini at netapp.com
Wed Mar 2 08:11:35 PST 2005
hch> Please don't put in things like the address translation service or
hch> memory windows for DAPL folks. The IB code in the kernel already
hch> has far too much unused stuff and adding more will not go past reviews
hch> for kernel inclusions - as will DAPL itself exactly because of such
hch> utter stupidities. Similar hint to the NFS over RDMA folks at CITI -
hch> if you want your stuff to go in use the openib helper directly below
hch> the transport switch - differnet RDMA transports are too diverse to
hch> be sanely abstracted out and DAPL does a horrible job at that.
DAPL has been efficiently supported on top of InfiniBand, iWARP, the
Virtual Interface Architecture, Quadrics, and Myrinet.
hch> If we need to consolidate code for differnt transports we can put
hch> it into a library later on.
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