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From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
To: Gohar Irfan <goharirfan94@gmail.com>,
	"xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org" <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Subject: Re: Infiniband support
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 09:32:54 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1452159174.21055.127.camel@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPe5K8ihyrb7qOYa2Nys-9rmVk_vK0Winvo8Y6P-7e-Djf=d7g@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 06:54 +0000, Gohar Irfan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Can anyone guide me on how to compile Xen with Infiniband support?
> (Particularly Mellanox)
> I want to perform some RDMA read/write functionality from within the Xen
> code (it is for a course project) using the Verbs API. 

Xen itself doesn't typically contain I/O drivers at all, that is delegated
to the domain 0 or driver domain kernel(s).

IOW you need to be looking at how to compile Infiniband support into your
dom0 kernel, i.e. in Linux or BSD or whatever, I would presume there are
plenty of resources on that subject on the web.

Ian.


> 
> Thanks,
> Gohar
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-07  9:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-06  6:54 Infiniband support Gohar Irfan
2016-01-07  9:32 ` Ian Campbell [this message]
2016-01-07 10:14   ` Gohar Irfan
2016-01-07 10:58     ` Ian Campbell

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