[ofa-general] ***SPAM*** RDMA Operations and Endian-ness

[Dotan Barak]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 6:43 AM, Adrien Guillon <aj.guillon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> When I do RDMA operations between two nodes, I notice that atomic operations
> will automatically translate the values for endian-ness according to the
> spec.  Is the same true with other RDMA operations, or do I have to
> translate an object representation once it has been transported?  I found
> very little mention of endian-ness in the spec that did not relate to atomic
> values.
>

Atomic operations transfer (64 bit) number, other RDMA operations
transfer (undefined) blocks, so you have to take care of endianess
issues in other RDMA operations.

Dotan
> Thanks!
>
> AJ
>
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