From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Gunthorpe Subject: Re: Proposal for adding ib_usa to the Linux Infiniband Subsystem Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 11:20:26 -0600 Message-ID: <20100521172026.GW15969@obsidianresearch.com> References: <4C2744E8AD2982428C5BFE523DF8CDCB49A488D12E@MNEXMB1.qlogic.org> <4C2744E8AD2982428C5BFE523DF8CDCB49A488D170@MNEXMB1.qlogic.org> <20100521165018.GA8856@obsidianresearch.com> <4C2744E8AD2982428C5BFE523DF8CDCB49A488D181@MNEXMB1.qlogic.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4C2744E8AD2982428C5BFE523DF8CDCB49A488D181-amwN6d8PyQWXx9kJd3VG2h2eb7JE58TQ@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Mike Heinz Cc: Sean Hefty , "linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 12:04:17PM -0500, Mike Heinz wrote: > I have to agree that in some ways this seems a good fit with > ibverbs. Also, without the multicast support, the whole thing is > well under 1 kloc in the kernel, making it a good candidate for > being combined with another module. verbs? Why verbs? umad. The only thing that is needed is to subscribe to a GSI notification, replicate incoming notifications and route them as normal mads over the umad interface to all subscribers.. With some cleverness you could probably make the subscribe/unsubscribe fairly general.. Remember SA notifications are not the only unsolicited events that can occure in the GSI framework. > 1. If it's been working for a couple of years now, do we really need > to change it? We need to live with it forever once it is accepted.. Jason -- 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