>On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 10:43:44AM -0700, Sean Hefty wrote: >> Export rdma_set_ib_paths to user space to allow applications to >> manually set the IB path used for connections. This allows >> alternative ways for a user space application or library to obtain >> path record information, including retrieving path information >> from cached data, avoiding direct interaction with the IB SA. >> The IB SA is a single, centralized entity that can limit scaling >> on large clusters running MPI applications. > >Um, isn't this kind of low level control exactly why we have the IB >CM?
There are very few apps that I'm aware of (one to be precise) that have coded directly to the libibcm. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
