Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Infiniband/OmniPath/iWARP and other RDMA related staff

[Alexey Shvetsov]

В письме от среда, 29 июня 2016 г. 13:19:06 MSK пользователь Holger Hoffstätte 
написал:
> On Wed, 29 Jun 2016 10:07:07 +0300, Alexey Shvetsov wrote:
> > Hi all!
> >
> > I'm going to revive RDMA fabric related things in gentoo. And since its
> > not
>
> Yay!
>
> > only about infiniband staff but about more generic fabric types there is
> > and idea to rename category sys-infiniband to more generic name.
> > Suggestions are
> >
> > sys-rdma
> > sys-fabric
> >
> > What will be inside? It will be RDMA related stuff like OFED, fabric
> > userspace drivers (verbs, psm, psm2, libfabric and others), plugins for
> > specific devices, tools to flash RDMA cards and other related staff.
>
> This makes me happy. I've been playing with a standalone libfabric in my
> overlay via the sockets/UDP providers, and had nothing but problems when I
> tried to add USE flags for the various OFED bits (psm2 etc.)

Thats is the part of plan =)

>
> An up-to-date libfabric that pulls in ofed only when needed would finally
> enable people without the otherwise necessary fabric HW to write against
> the much more usable & sane (when compared to raw IB verbs) libfabric APIs.
>
> As far as the name is concerned IMHO fabric sounds less RDMA-specific;
> I think the OFI WG now also prefers implementation-neutral terms.

In current state i also preffer to rename it to 

sys-fabric 

and put all interconnect related stuff here (yes sys-cluster/knem  and sys-
cluster/open-mx also should go here)

So if there will be no objections i will do move in next 2 days

>
> cheers,
> Holger


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Alexey 'Alexxy' Shvetsov, PhD
Department of Molecular and Radiation Biophysics
FSBI Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, NRC Kurchatov Institute,
Leningrad region, Gatchina, Russia
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