[openib-general] [PATCH 0 of 20] [RFC] ipath driver - another round for review

Bryan O'Sullivan bos at pathscale.com
Fri Mar 10 10:12:05 PST 2006


On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 13:02 -0500, Talpey, Thomas wrote:

> Will it work in a system where IPoIB
> is enabled?

Yes.

>  How do you handle IP addressing and discovery?

DHCP and static addressing both work as you'd expect.

> Have you tested it under all upper layers including IPv6?

Yes.

>  What apps do your users run?

Whatever they want.  NFS, ssh, SMB, etc, etc.

> At a minimum, you need to document its protocol, and quantify its
> performance advantages. If so, perhaps it can be justified as an
> experimental upper layer.

It's not Infiniband-related at all, if that's what you're objecting to.

> By the way, what's the name of this component?

ipath_ether.

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