On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 11:04 -0700, Sean Hefty wrote: > A while ago, some support was added to the rdma stack to support IB routers > in a > very limited fashion (done as part of PathForward). The relevant patches are > available at: > > git://git.openfabrics.org/~shefty/rdma-dev.git ib_router > > I wanted to gauge interest merging these changes upstream for 2.6.25. I know > there is growing interest in using IB routers. Obsidian has a router, and > both > Mellanox and QLogic adapters can be used to construct host routers. > > The main disadvantage to merging the patches is that it slightly violates the > IB > CM protocol by sending invalid data in the CM REQ. The patches can be > optionally compiled in as experimental if needed.
My take ($0.02) on this is (at most) experimental if it is to be pushed upstream. The issue I see is how prestandard v. standard IB routers can be dealt with as cleanly as possible. -- Hal > - Sean > _______________________________________________ > general mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general > > To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general _______________________________________________ general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
