On Wed, 29 Jun 2016 10:07:07 +0300, Alexey Shvetsov wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm going to revive RDMA fabric related things in gentoo. And since its not
Yay! > only about infiniband staff but about more generic fabric types there is and > idea to rename category sys-infiniband to more generic name. Suggestions are > > sys-rdma > sys-fabric > > What will be inside? It will be RDMA related stuff like OFED, fabric > userspace > drivers (verbs, psm, psm2, libfabric and others), plugins for specific > devices, > tools to flash RDMA cards and other related staff. This makes me happy. I've been playing with a standalone libfabric in my overlay via the sockets/UDP providers, and had nothing but problems when I tried to add USE flags for the various OFED bits (psm2 etc.) An up-to-date libfabric that pulls in ofed only when needed would finally enable people without the otherwise necessary fabric HW to write against the much more usable & sane (when compared to raw IB verbs) libfabric APIs. As far as the name is concerned IMHO fabric sounds less RDMA-specific; I think the OFI WG now also prefers implementation-neutral terms. cheers, Holger
