On 04/23/2012 01:25 PM, richard Croucher wrote:
What's makes SDP so useful and why is will be sorely missed is that it
does not require users to refactor existing TCP socket code, or even be
in possession of the source code for that matter.
Neither does IPoIB, and there are no legal questions
What's makes SDP so useful and why is will be sorely missed is that it does
not require users to refactor existing TCP socket code, or even be in
possession of the source code for that matter. Simply preloading libsdp is
all need to do to convert that old, cranky tcp program to run (almost)
IMHO Mellanox would rather sell you their VMA than have you use a free
SDP. I assume that they have stopped maintaining SDP.
It's a great shame to see it dropped. It a good way for people to get
going with InfiniBand, particularly since IPoIB performance is so poor.
--
Richard Croucher
Ben wrote,
Oh.
Is there another ULP that replaces it? Offer the same feat.?
Sean is working on an alternative socket-like API called rsockets
that you might be interested in. It is completely user-space library
and does not have any Microsoft IP issues. This may be an acceptable
alternative to
So where did it go? Is SDP obsolete?
its deprecated
Also, without knowing above status, I ported ib_sdp.ko in
OFED-1.5 to Linux 3.4.0-rc1 just so I can try it out (I'm also trying out
ib_srpt, so I needed recent enough kernel).
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Hi.
I recently starting trying out SDP, and also noticed it is gone
from OFED. In recent exchange in this group, it was stated
SDP is not part of OFED any more.
So where did it go? Is SDP obsolete?
Also, without knowing above status, I ported ib_sdp.ko in
OFED-1.5 to Linux 3.4.0-rc1 just so I
