Mike,
The whole purpose of SDP is to make
sockets go faster without having to have the applications modified. This
is what the customers want. I've heard this time and time again, across a
wide spectrum of customers.
Modifying the sockets API is just defining yet another
RDMA API, and we have so many already....
-Jeff
At 12:59 AM 7/12/2006, Tziporet Koren wrote:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Krause
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 9:23 AM
To: Tziporet Koren; Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen)
Cc: OpenFabricsEWG; openib
Subject: Re: [openfabrics-ewg] [openib-general] OFED 1.1 release - schedule and features
Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen) wrote:
> For SDP, I would like to see "improved stability" (maybe you have this
> in mind under "beta quality"), also how about "AIO support"? The rest
> of the list looks good.
>
Yes - beta quality means improved stability.
AIO is not planed for 1.1 (schedule issue). If needed we can add it to 1.2
Would be nice if people thought about implementing the Sockets API Extensions from the OpenGroup. They provide explicit memory management and async communications which will allow SDP performance to be fully exploited. The benefits go beyond what is found in AIO or on other OS such as Windows. If one were to extend slightly to have explicit RDMA Read and Write from the Sockets API, then it would be quite possible to eliminate SDP entirely for new applications leaving SDP strictly for legacy Sockets environments.
Mike
Tziporet
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