Messages in this thread | | | From | "Woodruff, Robert J" <> | Subject | RE: InfiniBand BOF @ LSM - topics of interest | Date | Thu, 16 May 2002 16:42:42 -0700 |
| |
> 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.
Maybe a little higher level than raw packets, but yes, a light-weight sockets protocol driver. - 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/
| |