[ofa-general] OpenIB development help

[Bharath Ramesh]

* Roland Dreier (rdreier at cisco.com) wrote:
>  > Thanks for replying to mail. I have a some basic understanding of IB. I
>  > have gone through some of the example code in the example directory and
>  > OFED performance test. I noticed that every one of those examples used
>  > TCP to exchange information regarding lid, psn and qpn. My question is
>  > basically that is there any other way to exchange this information using
>  > only IB. Since no hardware supports RD, I have to bite the bullet and
>  > use RC.
> 
> Look at librdmacm (or libibcm).  They provide higher-level
> abstractions for connection establishment.
> 

Thanks for pointing to them. Another question off-topic I would say. I
noticed that you are the maintainer for libibverbs in debian. Is there
any time line when you might get librdmacm or libibcm into debian
experimental/unstable?

Thanks,

Bharath

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