Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: InfiniBand BOF @ LSM - topics of interest | Date | Thu, 16 May 2002 01:32:09 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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