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

[Talpey, Thomas]

Hrm. Not sure how the emulation isn't Infiniband-related.

But you see the problem, right? If integrated, this becomes
a  Linux-to-Linux protocol (only). And the first question it has
to answer is "why isn't this just IPoIB"? I haven't seen an
answer to that.

Tom.

At 01:12 PM 3/10/2006, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
>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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