> > On May 29, 2018, at 1:01 PM, Hefty, Sean <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Should we indicate the transport layer here? (Ethernet, IB, > >> Omnipath, GNI, ...etc.) > > > > I don't even know what transport protocol means anymore, and I'm not > entirely joking. RoCE is IB transport over UDP, which is also a transport, > over > which we could layer the utility provider ofi_rxm, so the transport is... ? > > I don't think protocols like RoCEv2 vs. UDP vs. TCP vs. ... are useful, > because > many of the devices that libfabric supports can speak lots of protocols. And > some > > When I look at > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_layer#Link_layer_protocols, I see ARP, > NDP, OSPF, PPP, ...etc. > > Given that "protocol" and "transport" may be overloaded terms, should we > use a field name like "network_type"? That lets us identify Ethernet, IB, > Omnipath, GNI, ... etc. I think that's what we're trying to identify here, > right?
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