On 2017-03-11 22:53, Paul Koning wrote:
On Mar 11, 2017, at 4:42 PM, Johnny Billquist <[email protected]> wrote:
On 2017-03-11 22:33, Tim Stark wrote:
Yeah.
I believe so. That is possible to replace CI/DSSI physical layer with UDP over
IP multicast to embed SCS/MSCP packets to other hosts and HSCs at once.
Of course this is doable. The network part itself is not even hard. The big
work is actually implementing the CI controller emulation. Once you have the
packet to send out, you just send it.
It's probably not as easy as you might think. As I mentioned, the CI protocol (SCA) is
an RDMA protocol ("named buffers"). If you want to emulate CI, you'd have to
emulate that, because the host code that talks to the CI expects that service, and the
real CI interfaces provide it on the I/O card. You could use the LAVC protocol spec (if
there is one available) as inspiration, but it may be that LAVC doesn't provide the same
application services as SCA does.
That would be the CI controller emulation... And, as I said, that side
will not be so easy. But once you have the packet, as such, you can just
send it. That is the easy part.
Reception is the same story. Getting the bits from the network is easy.
Doing the same things with them as the CI controller does, is not.
Johnny
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