Re: [openib-general] [PATCH 0 of 20] [RFC] ipath driver - anotherround for review

From: Bryan O'Sullivan
Date: Fri Mar 10 2006 - 23:17:39 EST


On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 14:30 -0800, Grant Grundler wrote:

> > We already implement SDP.
>
> ah ok.
> Is your SDP slower than the "ethernet emulation" for message passing?

I don't recall off the top of my head.

> You missed the netdev and netfilter guys ranting when Infiniband
> promoters proprosed putting a switch in the kernel to bypass
> the TCP/IP stack when SDP was available.

No, I saw that happen. The ipath_ether driver doesn't bypass anything
in any way.

<b

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Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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