[openib-general] using IB on a port without IPoIB running NIC

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

> 	Thank you for the information, I may change my mind to require
> IPoIB to run newer version of HP-MPI on OFED 1.2, if I don't find other
> way to easily establish IB connection dynamically between two process
> groups with dynamic size.

I'm not really sure what your needs are, but it's not like this is
completely impossible.

Some people use ad-hoc socket-based tricks establish IB connections,
and this will work for some topologies. You can look at libibverbs/examples
for an example of such implementation.

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MST