Quoting r. Greg Lindahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> ipath_ether uses InfiniBand protocols but is not the same as IPoIB. So
> it's better to ask [EMAIL PROTECTED] about it. (The reason we ship
> it at all is that it's faster than IPoIB -- this necessitates a
> different wire format -- and it behaves more like an ethernet device
> than IPoIB.)

In what sense is it more like an ethernet device than IPoIB? Since IP over IB
just puts an IP packet inside a UD packet without overhead, what wire protocol
changes can thinkably be done, while still using InfiniBand protocols, to
improve performance?

-- 
Michael S. Tsirkin
Staff Engineer, Mellanox Technologies
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