Jeff Squyres wrote: > On Oct 21, 2009, at 8:10 AM, Brice Goglin wrote: > >> 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 >> > > Heh. This is even more branding confusion that I think OpenFabrics as > an organization has not done well to clarify... > > OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) is a) currently Linux-only, > and b) is a combined release mechanism / software package for several > different upper-level protocols (verbs, UDAPL, MPI, etc.) largely > employing RDMA-based technologies. > > The "OFED" software is *not* the same thing as the verbs stack -- it > *includes* the verbs stack. For example, various Linux distros > include the verbs stack and some other RDMA-based packages (such as > Open MPI) but do *not* include OFED itself. OFED is basically > packaging and an installer/uninstaller for a whole bunch of > OpenFabrics-sponsored/related software packages. > > For example, if you use the verbs stack on a RHEL distribution, it's > not OFED. It's the verbs that is packaged by RedHat. Same with > SuSE. Same with Debian. Same with ...etc. > > So I think the name would be better as of-verbs.h, or > openfabrics-verbs.h, or ...
I'd vote for or openfabrics-verbs.h then :) >> 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. >> > > > Fair enough -- I have no problems #if LINUX'ing it for this release. > Mebbe someday if/when verbs is officially released on Solaris and > Windows and if we get adventurous enough, we can test on those > platforms and remove the #if LINUX protection. Cool? Or, we could install it only on Linux for now? (and document this in the doxyfile) Brice
