[ofw] some WinOF questions

Tzachi Dar tzachid at mellanox.co.il
Tue Nov 6 14:18:17 PST 2007


There was a small bug in interoperability between Linux SDP and windows SDP. This bug caused low performance. We currently have a work around for this bug.

Please let me know if you need more information.

Thanks
Tzachi  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ofw-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org 
> [mailto:ofw-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org] On Behalf Of 
> Sufficool, Stanley
> Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 10:07 PM
> To: Sean Hefty; Diego Guella; ofw at lists.openfabrics.org
> Subject: RE: [ofw] some WinOF questions
> 
> IPoIB works fine for me with WinOF and OFED 1.2, although 
> haven't had a chance to test more recent OFED kernels.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ofw-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org 
> [mailto:ofw-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org] On Behalf Of Sean Hefty
> Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 11:39 AM
> To: 'Diego Guella'; ofw at lists.openfabrics.org
> Subject: RE: [ofw] some WinOF questions
> 
> 
> > How much time do you need approximately to port new code/fixes to 
> > WinOF?
> 
> The driver models and interfaces are different.  This is a 
> total guess, but I would expect the time to be 50-80% of the 
> time to develop the code from scratch.
> 
> > Does WinOF follow OFED or it is a separate working group?
> 
> These are separate groups.  Even the features between WinOF 
> and OFED are not similar.
> 
> > Where can I find binaries to install WinOF, and libraries 
> and include
> files for linking executables against SDP, verbs, cm?
> 
> I would try here:
>  
> http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/WinOF/
> 
> I don't know if there's another location or other available downloads.
> 
> > Is interoperability between WinOF and OFED expected/guaranteed?
>  
> I would expect interoperability with any standard protocols, 
> such as IPoIB or SDP.  But I don't know how much testing has 
> occurred in this area.
> 
> - Sean
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