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

[Andrew Savchenko]

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
> 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.

If sys-fabric name will be used, stuff like sys-cluster/knem
should go there too, imho. Probably this is not what intended, so
sys-rdma seems to be better name.

Best regards,
Andrew Savchenko