[openib-general] Suggested components to support in 1.0

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Fri Feb 24 13:47:39 PST 2006


On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 01:42:05PM -0800, Sean Hefty wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >>IB protocols:
> >>
> >>     * IPoIB
> >>     * RC
> >
> >I haven't seen any RC code for the gen2 stack yet and thus highly doubt
> >it'll be ready in time.
> 
> I think he just means reliable connections, which is there.  The 
> reliability is handled by the hardware; and the IB CM or RDMA CM 
> establishes the connections.

sorry, I was thinking of the silverstorm RDS stuff.  But for RC then
the same is true as with the other features below that aren't protocols.

> >>     * SRQ
> >>     * UC
> >>     * UD
> >
> >What upper layer protocols do you refer to with these acronyms?
> 
> shared receive queues, unreliable connections, and unreliable datagrams

But that's not IB protocols..



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