Hi!

 > It's not possible to put TIPC directly on InfiniBand (IB) *now*
 > because no TIPC release supports IB bearers.

O.K.


 > Someone would have to write the IB bearer code for TIPC.
 > It's open source, you're free to do that yourself or
 > look for someone else to do the work.

I only was interested because I haven't had a closer look to the sources 
of the IB interface but I've seen (in inetdevice.h) that the struct 
in_device is also based on the net_device struct which is the base for 
the etherdevices...


 > also...
 > If you have (or create) an ethernet over IB driver, then
 > you could bind the existing TIPC stack to that.

You must be a fortune teller. ;-)
I've developed an Ethernet over Sockets driver which should also work 
with IB cards (I didn't test it). It's stable but the performance must 
be better for further usage and because of that I must redesign some 
things...


 > What's your intended use of TIPC/IB - just curious.

I work at the Chair for Operating Systems at the University of Aachen 
(Germany) in a team which tries to run (for example) the Kerrighed SSI 
cluster project over other than the Ethernet network cards.

Many Tanks for your fast answer!

Best regards,
Lukas

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