[ofiwg] Any plans to add traffic-class/qos to the API?

[Byrne, John (Labs)]

The only mention I see of it is in the URI specified in the FI_ADDR_STR example in the fi_getinfo() man page.  Since my goal is to bind different traffic classes to different transmit contexts for a scalable endpoint, specifying TC/QOS as part of the address doesn't fill my need. I'd want an extra parameter to fi_tx_attr.  In my head, this an index that functions as an abstract traffic class, but the actual policy, if any, would be provided by the lower-level driver or a higher level management tool. So a TC of zero or one, would have no particular meaning to the API, it is just a label to be interpreted by something else in the stack and it will simply be ignored by providers that don't support it.

There is always the vendor-specific route, if need be.

John Byrne

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