The following patches are the first 5 in a series of 25 total that adds the ability to handle native Infiniband addressing to the rdma_cm. I'm hoping by submitting only a small subset of the patches at a time, they will be easier to review.
Adding support for native IB addressing allows us to offload name and/or address translation services to a user space daemon and provide the user greater control over path selection. A primary motivation is to support a call rdma_getaddrinfo, functionally equivalent to getaddrinfo, without duplicating address resolution work or tying the implementation to specific IP services, such as ARP. It also allows an MPI application to exchange job node addressing though a process manager using native network addressing, which can avoid the need for most translations. Signed-off-by: Sean Hefty <[email protected]> -- 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
