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

Wed Mar 31 09:11:00 PST 2004

    Troy> I don't think we have to start from scratch, but we do need
    Troy> to concentrate an effort on scalabilty that throws away all
    Troy> the ULP's and connection management, etc, and just makes
    Troy> sure the driver and *USER* level access layer can scale to
    Troy> large node counts, and verify the hardware works reliably.

    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.

 - Roland

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