Re: ***SPAM*** Re: [ofa-general] Getting Started with RDMA

2008-07-12 Thread Or Gerlitz
Adrien Guillon wrote: How difficult is it in reality to use this library? I assume that this would give better performance than RDMA CM? I also presume that I can do RDMA operations with that, since Infiniband provides them in the standard. Among other knocks, if you choose to use libibcm

***SPAM*** Re: [ofa-general] Getting Started with RDMA

2008-07-11 Thread Adrien Guillon
Alright, thanks for helping the n00b everyone. How about IB CM? The page says: Use of the IB CM requires knowledge the IB CM protocols defined in Chapter 12 of the IB Architecture Spec Release 1.2. How difficult is it in reality to use this library? I assume that this would give better

Re: ***SPAM*** Re: [ofa-general] Getting Started with RDMA

2008-07-11 Thread Dotan Barak
Adrien Guillon wrote: Alright, thanks for helping the n00b everyone. How about IB CM? The page says: Use of the IB CM requires knowledge the IB CM protocols defined in Chapter 12 of the IB Architecture Spec Release 1.2. How difficult is it in reality to use this library? I assume that

Re: [ofa-general] Getting Started with RDMA

2008-07-10 Thread Adrien Guillon
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 7:02 AM, Or Gerlitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please note that you have to have a netdevice up and running for the IP subnet addresses you would be using with the rdma-cm. In the IB case, this means IPoIB and in the iWARP case, it means a network device set by the iWARP

Re: [ofa-general] Getting Started with RDMA

2008-07-10 Thread Dotan Barak
Adrien Guillon wrote: On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 7:02 AM, Or Gerlitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please note that you have to have a netdevice up and running for the IP subnet addresses you would be using with the rdma-cm. In the IB case, this means IPoIB and in

Re: [ofa-general] Getting Started with RDMA

2008-07-08 Thread Or Gerlitz
Adrien Guillon wrote: I'll check out the man pages today. I was hoping for something that would give me a broad overview of the library implementation, the approach it takes and assumptions made. I'm a complete n00b with RDMA, but I would like to design a good C++ library to wrap the C

RE: [ofa-general] Getting Started with RDMA

2008-07-08 Thread Majumder, Rajib
:03 PM To: Adrien Guillon Cc: general@lists.openfabrics.org Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Getting Started with RDMA Adrien Guillon wrote: I'll check out the man pages today. I was hoping for something that would give me a broad overview of the library implementation, the approach it takes

Re: [ofa-general] Getting Started with RDMA

2008-07-07 Thread Or Gerlitz
Adrien Guillon wrote: I'm just getting started with RDMA... in particular my environment consists of Voltaire Infiniband equipment... although I would like to maintain platform independence as much as possible. I'm looking for a user space library that supports atomic operations, and remote

Re: [ofa-general] Getting Started with RDMA

2008-07-07 Thread Steve Wise
Or Gerlitz wrote: Adrien Guillon wrote: I'm just getting started with RDMA... in particular my environment consists of Voltaire Infiniband equipment... although I would like to maintain platform independence as much as possible. I'm looking for a user space library that supports atomic

***SPAM*** Re: [ofa-general] Getting Started with RDMA

2008-07-07 Thread Adrien Guillon
I'll check out the man pages today. I was hoping for something that would give me a broad overview of the library implementation, the approach it takes and assumptions made. I'm a complete n00b with RDMA, but I would like to design a good C++ library to wrap the C implementation unless there

Re: ***SPAM*** Re: [ofa-general] Getting Started with RDMA

2008-07-07 Thread Roland Dreier
I'll check out the man pages today. I was hoping for something that would give me a broad overview of the library implementation, the approach it takes and assumptions made. I'm a complete n00b with RDMA, but I would like to design a good C++ library to wrap the C implementation

[ofa-general] Getting Started with RDMA

2008-07-06 Thread Adrien Guillon
Hi everyone, I'm just getting started with RDMA... in particular my environment consists of Voltaire Infiniband equipment... although I would like to maintain platform independence as much as possible. I'm looking for a user space library that supports atomic operations, and remote memory