Re: Infiniband Shared Memory Segment

2011-01-27 Thread Roland Dreier
> What kind of data might be located within the memory pointed to by the > FD? I.e. Could there be configuration information for the connection > and/or HCA? Could there be the data waiting to be sent (although I > don't believe the HCA buffers)? Would it just be the command sent to > the HCA? I'm

RE: Infiniband Shared Memory Segment

2011-01-27 Thread Hefty, Sean
> What kind of data might be located within the memory pointed to by the > FD? I.e. Could there be configuration information for the connection > and/or HCA? Could there be the data waiting to be sent (although I > don't believe the HCA buffers)? Would it just be the command sent to > the HCA? A w

Infiniband Shared Memory Segment

2011-01-27 Thread Greg I Kerr
I sent this e-mail to the OFED ewg list but I figured someone on the Linux mailing list might know about this as well, since it's fairly low level details. I was hoping someone could answer a few questions for me, or point to where the answers might be. I dug through the formal IBA specification V