[Ofvwg] [ANNOUNCE] Open Fabrics Verbs Working Group (OFVWG) meeting tomorrow - 9/13/2016 at 11:00PDT

Jason Gunthorpe jgunthorpe at obsidianresearch.com
Wed Sep 14 10:13:49 PDT 2016


On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 05:30:59AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> I'm not fine with HFI exposing the non-verbs interfaces through
> drivers/infiniband/core interface, which as far as I can tell it
> currently does not even do, although some discussions here suggest
> that a future interface should cater to those interface.

The counter balance is that the Kernel Community has had a lot of bad
experiences with drivers growing their own user APIs and 'subsystem'
like functionality.

Jason



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