On Oct 6, 2007, at 9:08 PM, Andrew Friedley wrote:
Yeah so the HCA querying/selecting will be good to have separate, as
well as PD/registration stuff -- for example I copied the mpool rdma
callback functions verbatim from the OpenIB BTL to the UD BTL. I
don't
think QP creation is worth sharing, nor any of the connection
establishment stuff.
Ha,.
Which reminds me, can we rename the OpenIB BTL to 'ofrc' as
discussed on
a call a long time ago? I will do the work if it's cool with
everyone.
Can we wait until we bring the common/of stuff back from the tmp
branch? It'll make the changes to the openib BTL significantly
easier to merge.
I don't know Torsten's/Gleb's timeframe for moving everything to
common/of -- my job was to provide the skeleton and I did so. :-)
Do we care about backwards compatibility of the openib name? I
might
need help doing that, but shouldn't be a big deal.
Yes, I very much care about backward compatibility of the openib name
and MCA parameters... This is, as I see it, the biggest issue with
changing the name. Stuff like this has to work:
mpirun --mca btl openib,self ...
mpirun --mca btl_openib_foo 32 ...
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Jeff Squyres
Cisco Systems
