From: Alexey Shvetsov <alexxy@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: "Holger Hoffstätte" <holger@applied-asynchrony.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Infiniband/OmniPath/iWARP and other RDMA related staff
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 16:46:23 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2290188.FUcUd9L7I0@x240> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pan$17a5d$363781e2$aae7d1fa$d59573da@applied-asynchrony.com>
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В письме от среда, 29 июня 2016 г. 13:19:06 MSK пользователь Holger Hoffstätte
написал:
> 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
>
> Yay!
>
> > 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.
>
> This makes me happy. I've been playing with a standalone libfabric in my
> overlay via the sockets/UDP providers, and had nothing but problems when I
> tried to add USE flags for the various OFED bits (psm2 etc.)
Thats is the part of plan =)
>
> An up-to-date libfabric that pulls in ofed only when needed would finally
> enable people without the otherwise necessary fabric HW to write against
> the much more usable & sane (when compared to raw IB verbs) libfabric APIs.
>
> As far as the name is concerned IMHO fabric sounds less RDMA-specific;
> I think the OFI WG now also prefers implementation-neutral terms.
In current state i also preffer to rename it to
sys-fabric
and put all interconnect related stuff here (yes sys-cluster/knem and sys-
cluster/open-mx also should go here)
So if there will be no objections i will do move in next 2 days
>
> cheers,
> Holger
--
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:alexxyum@gmail.com
mailto:alexxy@omrb.pnpi.spb.ru
mailto:alexxy@gentoo.org
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-29 7:07 [gentoo-dev] Infiniband/OmniPath/iWARP and other RDMA related staff Alexey Shvetsov
2016-06-29 7:26 ` Andrew Savchenko
2016-06-29 11:34 ` Aaron Bauman
2016-06-29 13:19 ` [gentoo-dev] " Holger Hoffstätte
2016-06-29 13:46 ` Alexey Shvetsov [this message]
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