[openib-general] [ANNOUNCE] NetPIPE 3.7 release candidate 1

[Pradipta Kumar Banerjee]

Sean Hefty wrote:
> Troy Benjegerdes wrote:
>> Is the connection manager api considered 'stable' yet? Last I knew it 
>> was still undergoing a lot of development.
> 
> The connection manager API is relatively stable, and has been for a while. 
> Changes to the API have come in the form of new options and calls, rather than 
> changes to the existing calls.
True. We have been using it for quite some time for all our work on iWarp.

> 
>> Wouldn't it be possible to adapt the existing tcp connection setup code 
>> to work for Iwarp without using the connection manager? Most of the time 
>> when I test IB networks, I just bind to ethernet eth0 interfaces anyway.
> 
> My understanding is that it's not possible to connect iWarp QPs without using 
> the connection manager.  For IB, it's possible to connect over sockets and 
> exchange QP information over a TCP connection, but the same is not true for iWarp.
> 
> - Sean
Troy, the NetPIPE code needs to use the cm for successful working with iwarp. 
May be the changes can be in a seperate file altogether (like cm.c as in ibv.c) 
and have a seperate option in the Makefile to enable the same.

Thanks,
Pradipta Kumar
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> openib-general mailing list
> openib-general at openib.org
> http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
> 
> To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
> 
>