[ofa-general] IB verbs client/server programming...

[Dotan Barak]

Hi.


On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 7:51 PM, Peter W. Morreale <pmorreale at novell.com> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I'm starting a new client/server project using RDMA and I'm a little
> stuck at the moment.
>
> I've seen Roland Dreier's slides/client-server example as well as the
> cmatose.c example in the OFED 1.3 tree.  Conceptually, I'm starting to
> become familiar with channels and PD's and MR's ("Oh my!"), however one
> thing is not clear to me at all.  How do I block waiting for the next
> RDMA event in my daemon?
>
> In other words, what interfaces do I have to look at to implement the
> "blocking" portion equivalent of a recv(2)?
Do you want to block until the data will be received?
(if so: what is the meaning of this when the sender uses RDMA?)

What exactly to you want to do?

>
> Seems like all the server examples block at rdma_listen(), then run to
> completion exchanging data.
>
> Also, is there any documentation out there on using ib verbs?  I looked
> on the OpenFabrics web site (as well as Googled) and have found little
> besides the man pages.

Unfortunately, there isn't much documentation on this today.
>
> Thanks in advance for any pointers.
>
> -PWM
>
Dotan