Re: [gentoo-dev] Infiniband/OmniPath/iWARP and other RDMA related staff

2016-06-29 Thread Aaron Bauman

On Wednesday, June 29, 2016 4:07:07 PM JST, Alexey Shvetsov wrote:

Hi all!

I'm going to revive RDMA fabric related things in gentoo. And since its not 
only about infiniband staff but about more generic fabric types 
there is and 
idea to rename category sys-infiniband to more generic name. Suggestions are




That would be wonderful, especially with the longstanding security issues 
against sys-infiniband/*.  Bugs 438444, 438446, 463338.


I hope your project goes well.  :)


sys-rdma
sys-fabric

What will be inside? It will be RDMA related stuff like OFED, 
fabric userspace 
drivers (verbs, psm, psm2, libfabric and others), plugins for 
specific devices, 
tools to flash RDMA cards and other related staff.







Re: [gentoo-dev] Infiniband/OmniPath/iWARP and other RDMA related staff

2016-06-29 Thread Andrew Savchenko
On Wed, 29 Jun 2016 10:07:07 +0300 Alexey Shvetsov wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> I'm going to revive RDMA fabric related things in gentoo. And since its not 
> only about infiniband staff but about more generic fabric types there is and 
> idea to rename category sys-infiniband to more generic name. Suggestions are
> 
> sys-rdma
> sys-fabric
> 
> What will be inside? It will be RDMA related stuff like OFED, fabric 
> userspace 
> drivers (verbs, psm, psm2, libfabric and others), plugins for specific 
> devices, 
> tools to flash RDMA cards and other related staff.

If sys-fabric name will be used, stuff like sys-cluster/knem
should go there too, imho. Probably this is not what intended, so
sys-rdma seems to be better name.

Best regards,
Andrew Savchenko


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[gentoo-dev] Infiniband/OmniPath/iWARP and other RDMA related staff

2016-06-29 Thread Alexey Shvetsov
Hi all!

I'm going to revive RDMA fabric related things in gentoo. And since its not 
only about infiniband staff but about more generic fabric types there is and 
idea to rename category sys-infiniband to more generic name. Suggestions are

sys-rdma
sys-fabric

What will be inside? It will be RDMA related stuff like OFED, fabric userspace 
drivers (verbs, psm, psm2, libfabric and others), plugins for specific devices, 
tools to flash RDMA cards and other related staff.

-- 
Best Regards,
Alexey 'Alexxy' Shvetsov, PhD
Department of Molecular and Radiation Biophysics
FSBI Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, NRC Kurchatov Institute,
Leningrad region, Gatchina, Russia
mailto:alexx...@gmail.com
mailto:ale...@omrb.pnpi.spb.ru
mailto:ale...@gentoo.org

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