В письме от среда, 29 июня 2016 г. 13:19:06 MSK пользователь Holger Hoffstätte написал: > 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.)
Thats is the part of plan =) > > 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. In current state i also preffer to rename it to sys-fabric and put all interconnect related stuff here (yes sys-cluster/knem and sys- cluster/open-mx also should go here) So if there will be no objections i will do move in next 2 days > > cheers, > Holger -- Best Regards, Alexey 'Alexxy' Shvetsov, PhD Department of Molecular and Radiation Biophysics FSBI Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, NRC Kurchatov Institute, Leningrad region, Gatchina, Russia mailto:alexx...@gmail.com mailto:ale...@omrb.pnpi.spb.ru mailto:ale...@gentoo.org
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