[openib-general] Re: vapi versus openib imm_data

[Sean Hefty]

Fabian Tillier wrote:
> It doesn't matter what VAPI wants - it's the application that matters.
> If the application is using the immediate data for flags, you don't
> need any swapping on the OpenIB side of things, and you can avoid the
> swap altogether.  While this makes the VAPI implementation less
> efficient (two swaps of the immediate data), hopefully that
> implementation will be replaced overtime with OpenIB leaving an
> optimal solution.  Again, this all depends on what the app is doing
> with the immediate data.

If you run openib on different platforms, one big endian and the other little 
endiand, this doesn't work.

- Sean