[openib-general] IB: I don't like what I'm seeing.

Wed Mar 31 10:22:30 PST 2004

On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 09:11:00AM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
>     Troy> In the interest of parallelism ;) , we should also have
>     Troy> another effort that works on different ULP's, and the 'whole
>     Troy> stack', but Ron shouldn't have to know anything about it, or
>     Troy> the complexity involved.
> 
> This is not a bad idea.  However I think most of the people involved
> in OpenIB are interested in building a full-performance,
> InfiniBand-compliant stack.  Therefore I think this UD-only effort
> should be the alternate track.

Well, given the mess all existing stacks are I guess ron's idea would
be the best way to get ib support into the kernel.  And for the typical
cluster interconnect ib use that I see most vendors looking after it
sounds like the right thing.

If we need alternate features let's build ontop of that.  This
incremental development process has worked quite well in the linux
history.  At least much better than the usual vendor mess all current
ib stacks are.

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