>>>> Also, can you point to a definition of the MDT interface? Are there >>>> any consumers of it already in the tree so I can see how it works? >>>> All this talk of it has made me quite curious. >>> No. The only consumer I know of for MDT is Cassini. I doubt it will >>> ever be opened, but I certainly don't speak for the powers that be. >>> (Otherwise it would long ago have been ported to GLDv3 and open >>> sourced. :-) >> It seems to also be in GLDv2, but only for use of Infiniband >> drivers. gld_register() seems to allow on IB to use MDT. > > Interesting, I had forgotten about that one. IB should be ported to > GLDv3, if not already done. (I know I code reviewed such a while back. > Not sure if it ever integrated.) > Yes, the ibd driver has been ported to GLDv3. I think there was concern that there could be performance regression with the GLDv3 ibd driver since GLDv3 doesn't support MDT, and I am not sure what is the final number. But since the porting is done, I guess it turned out to be a non issue.
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