[ofiwg] libfabric fi_getinfo question

[Weiny, Ira]

> 
> 2015-07-17 8:32 GMT+03:00 Weiny, Ira <ira.weiny at intel.com>:
> > Setting up IPoIB is the easiest way to go.  Is there a reason you can't set up
> IPoIB?
> 
> 
> Because i need to maintain additional stuff that i don't need. For example in
> kernel srp does not need ipoib because it provides block devices and use plain
> rdma, in my case i want to use rdma for storage traffic and don't want to
> configure network, bonding, stacking switches, tune mtu and other stuff,
> because it does not needed, Why not provide resolving capabilities for plain
> rdma without ip stack?
> In my case i'm already have node guid and port gid on each node.
> 

If you already know the port gid you want to connect to then you should use AF_IB with rdmacm.

Ira