From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kevin J Moran Subject: Re: [Users] Software IB switch/router Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 19:17:30 -0500 Message-ID: <570EE19A.4040301@systemfabricworks.com> References: <1828884A29C6694DAF28B7E6B8A82373AB0416C3@ORSMSX109.amr.corp.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1828884A29C6694DAF28B7E6B8A82373AB0416C3-P5GAC/sN6hkd3b2yrw5b5LfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: "Hefty, Sean" , Robert LeBlanc , "users-ZwoEplunGu1OwGhvXhtEPSCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org" , "linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org There were some presentations that discussed IB Routing and the challenges/availability at the recent Open Fabrics Workshop in Monterey. Here is a link to a site that has both the slides and the videos (some chose not to allow video) from the workshop http://insidehpc.com/2016-open-fabrics-workshop-video-gallery/ Regards, Kevin On 4/13/16 6:18 PM, Hefty, Sean wrote: >> If I wanted to do something stupid and create a white-box Infiniband >> switch/router, is there some software that does that? Is it even >> possible? > I'm not aware of any open source software to do this. > > IB routers are not defined by the IB specification. You may be able to cobble something together, but you would need to define much of the behavior yourself. > > You might be able to create a switch, but you would need an HCA that can disable offloaded transport processing (e.g. Truescale HCAs handle transport processing on the host). > > - Sean > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users-ZwoEplunGu1OwGhvXhtEPSCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org > http://lists.openfabrics.org/mailman/listinfo/users -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html