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

James Lentini jlentini at netapp.com
Mon Jul 31 11:17:20 PDT 2006



On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Greg Lindahl wrote:

> 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.

Dusting off my copy of vipl.h, circa 1996, I see that these operations 
were called RDMA READ/WRITE in VIA. For at least a decade, the RDMA 
READ/WRITE terms have been used consistently in RDMA network 
specifications.




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