Re: [ewg] To OFED or not to OFED

2012-04-20 Thread richard Croucher
As a OFED User I would rather it include all the low level drivers. The problem comes with mixed hardware environments. If I have to go to Mellanox for their drivers they will insist I run their complete MLNX OFED build. If I go to Qlogic/Intel they will say the same. I will then end up

Re: [ewg] To OFED or not to OFED

2012-04-20 Thread Latif, Faisal
We had already talked in our last ewg meeting that we are working on providing backports support (for NES) for OFED-3.2. In our next ewg meeting, timelines will be discussed. It has taken long and as we have been going over the new OFED package and had issues earlier and hopefully we will

Re: [ewg] Status of SDP? (and ib_sdp patch for Linux-3.4.x)

2012-04-20 Thread richard Croucher
IMHO Mellanox would rather sell you their VMA than have you use a free SDP. I assume that they have stopped maintaining SDP. It's a great shame to see it dropped. It a good way for people to get going with InfiniBand, particularly since IPoIB performance is so poor. -- Richard Croucher

Re: [ewg] Status of SDP? (and ib_sdp patch for Linux-3.4.x)

2012-04-20 Thread Woodruff, Robert J
Ben wrote, Oh. Is there another ULP that replaces it? Offer the same feat.? Sean is working on an alternative socket-like API called rsockets that you might be interested in. It is completely user-space library and does not have any Microsoft IP issues. This may be an acceptable alternative to