From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261392AbUBYQjG (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Feb 2004 11:39:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261404AbUBYQQG (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Feb 2004 11:16:06 -0500 Received: from kinesis.swishmail.com ([209.10.110.86]:62482 "EHLO kinesis.swishmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261400AbUBYQP2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Feb 2004 11:15:28 -0500 Message-ID: <403CCC77.6030405@techsource.com> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 11:25:27 -0500 From: Timothy Miller MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rik van Riel CC: Matti Aarnio , Greg KH , Christoph Hellwig , "Woodruff, Robert J" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Hefty, Sean" , "Coffman, Jerrie L" , "Davis, Arlin R" , marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com, torvalds@osdl.org Subject: Re: PATCH - InfiniBand Access Layer (IBAL) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Rik van Riel wrote: > On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Matti Aarnio wrote: > > >>People building "cheap supercomputers" will be going that way >>most definitely. Slowest version is 2.5 Gbit/s, and most >>common one appears to be running 4x that. > > > I'm sure infinibad will be inetresting once htere are > actual hardware driver.s However, I'm not aware of any > open source drivers in existnace now, so what good is > a stack ? > Chicken and egg. If infiniband has some significant value, it would be in everyone's favor if we took the initiative. On the other hand, if something else is better or adequate, like PCI Express (wasn't that based in infiniband?), then there's no point.