On 9/28/2015 12:39 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 05:28:20PM +0000, Woodruff, Robert J wrote:
On Mon, 28 Sep 2015, Christoph Lameter wrote:
Right. Its really nasty when you are trying to add features that require
libibverbs and libmlx? changes. Plus it may depend on kernel changes.
On the other hand, combining everything into one package limits the
ability of the maintainer of the individual components to release
packages with simple bug fixes or enhancements that are component
specific and don't require kernel core or libibverbs changes. Thus,
they would have to wait till a new combined package gets released
and makes the maintainer of that package the bottleneck for getting
new code out.
That is certainly the minority of work these days, by my observation.
Nearly everything is being driven by kernel side changes now and
requires cross-library work.
Or it is maintenance activity, which is so hard now (I've done a few
patches over the years) it isn't worth doing unless it is really
important.
Jason
I've released many libcxb4 releases that fixed bugs, and even added new
device support w/o any libibverbs changes. So I'm not sure I see the
benefit of munging all the RDMA libraries into some uber-release...
Steve.
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