Jeff Squyres wrote: > FWIW: the name has been OpenFabrics / OFED for a few years now. Not > that I wholly disagree -- we're still stuck with the "openib" module > name in Open MPI because we named it several years ago when it was > called OpenIB -- but I think the "OpenFabrics" name is pretty stable. > OpenIB was an informal name that existed before there was an official > organization behind it. OpenFabrics is the legal entity that was > created to support all things related to this technology, so I don't > think that name will be changing any time soon. Indeed, there's a > *lot* of money put into the marketing and branding with the name > "OpenFabrics". > > There hasn't [yet?] been discussion of renaming <infiniband/verbs.h> > (or some of the other IB-centric struct/symbol names), but the whole > package is very definitely marketed as "OpenFabrics verbs", not > "InfiniBand verbs" (although the IB vendors certainly don't correct > this misconception ;-) ). > > So I still would like to rename this file before release.
Ok :) I think I'd vote for some like ofed-verbs.h then, it'd match the existing glibc-sched.h and linux-libnuma.h > By the way, this file actually only works for Linux so far. Unless we > > > Sun is porting the OpenFabrics verbs to Solaris (to replace their DAPL > stack). There is also talk of porting the verbs API to MS Windows, > although I'm not tracking that effort at all. If all this comes to > fruition, it'll be 3 different platforms that expose the same verbs API. I thought verbs already existed on more than Linux actually. What I meant is that *our* ibverbs.h code is Linux specific (it uses a sysfs specific nice feature of OFED/Linux). If we want to keep this file portable, we'll need to port hwloc_ibverbs_get_device_cpuset() to non-Linux OS one day, which means we need a #ifdef LINUX in this public header. However, IIRC our #define LINUX_SYS is internal only so far. Brice
