Has OFED or anyone considered the need for a software-oriented tutorial on how to use RDMA? Currently it seems like there is a) the IB spec, b) the MindShare IB book, c) ibv_* manpages, and d) the source, which has zero comments. All of these are HW-oriented and/or assume knowledge of IB already.
I'm thinking something like The Java Tutorial, http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/ , which also was published on paper. RDMA needs something that provides an entry point to the thicket of IB jargon, that explains how all the pieces fit together, and simple example code that people can try out and play with. Googling "infiniband tutorial" returns nothing useful. Compare that to "java tutorial", "sockets tutorial", "python tutorial". Especially if rdma-capable HW is really going to be on every server motherboard soon, there will be a wave of casual/hobbyist programmers who may give RDMA a go, but only *if* they can understand it in an evening or two, instead of six months. Regards -- Andy _______________________________________________ general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
