[openib-general] [PATCH 0/6] Tranport Neutral Verbs Proposal.

[Greg Lindahl]

On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 10:39:49AM -0700, Sean Hefty wrote:

> Or maybe just "verb".  Would that be better?

That's a good one.

> IMO, the underlying issue with using 'rdma' is that a software based 
> solution doesn't actually do 'rdma'.  I think this is Greg's complaint, and 
> why he uses the terms 'get/put' instead of rdma read/write.

Actually, no, it isn't that. It's philosophical, a reaction to the
marketing over-hyping of RDMA.

I'm stunned that you've never heard of "put" and "get" ! Never used
CRAY SHMEM or any one-sided interconnect, I guess? MPI uses those
terms, too.

-- greg