Good point Woody, thank you for the clarification. > -----Original Message----- > From: Woodruff, Robert J [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 1:39 PM > To: Paul Grun; 'Paulo R. Panhoto'; [email protected] > Subject: RE: [ewg] Getting started > > Paul wrote, > > The Verbs API is 'transport agnostic', meaning that an application can > > use the Verbs API regardless of whether the underlying transport is > > InfiniBand over an IB wire, InfiniBand over an Ethernet wire (i.e. > > RoCE), or RDMA over a TCP/IP/Ethernet network (iWARP). > > This is true to some degree. There are some things in InfiniBand (like > immediate data, atomics, UD mode) that are not in iWarp, so if you want to > write a verbs application that will run over either transport, you need to > take some care to only use the verbs features that are common to both.
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