[openib-general] Several questions wrt OpenIB

[Jonathan Day]

Hi,

A feq questions with regards to OpenIB, running on a
Linux environment.

I'm using a 64-bit Linux, running on Opterons and the
Broadcom SB1 1250 (a dual-core MIPS64 chip that isn't
known for doing things in a standard way) where I will
be needing to use Infiniband, VIA, DAPL and MPI-2 at
various points.

The Opterons seem to be generally well-supported on
everything I've seen so far, but MIPS64 coders seem to
be somewhat of a rarity and Broadcom coders more so.
As a result, I've been having a hard time getting
things to run correctly or (in more cases than I'd
like) at all.

Are there any components of OpenIB which will
definitely NOT work on a MIPS64 board or over the MIPS
portion of the Linux kernel?

Are there any projects out there to support VIA over
OpenIB?

Are there any major latency issues with the current
svn version of OpenIB that I would need to take
account of (and/or ignore) when doing timings tests?

Thanks,

Jonathan Day