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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC v2 00/10] HFI Virtual Network Interface Controller (VNIC)
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 09:46:43 -0700
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On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 07:43:54AM +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > I have started working on porting hfi_vnic as per this new interface.
> > I will post RFC v3 later.
> > Posting the interface definition early for comments.
> 
> I wonder how many people will comment it without seeing usage example.

It is my hope that Mellanox will contribute to this and use it for
ipoib - we've have had conversations along these lines in the
past... Apparently mlx4/5 could run quite a bit faster if used like
this.

Jason