Re: InfiniBand BOF @ LSM - topics of interest

Alan Cox
2002-05-16T00:14:21Z

> so someone could invent a new address family for sockets,
> say AF_INFINIBANDO, that is much more light weight than the existing TCP/IP
> stack.
> Thus with a small change to the application, a good performance increase can
> be attained.

Shouldn't be too hard. It looks like its basically AF_PACKET combined with
the infiniband notions of security.