On Fri, Feb 01, 2019 at 05:10:40PM +0800, Kenneth Lee wrote: > After the RFCv2 was sent to the lkml, we do not get much feedback. But the > Infini-band guys said they did not like it. They think the solution is > re-invention of ib-verbs. No one needs to re-invent a monstrosity that is ib-verbs. If anything, that is a model that should never be recreated again, showing that we can learn from past mistakes :) > But we do not think so. ib-verbs maintains semantics of "REMOTE memory". But > UACCE maintains semantics of "LOCAL memory". We don't need to send, or sync > memory with other parties. We share those memory with all processes who share > the local bus. I agree, don't try to duplicate the mess that people moved away from (hint, everyone sane wraps ib-verbs in another model that can actually be used and understood...) > But we know we need more "complete" solution to let people understand and accept > our idea. So now we are working on it with our Compression and RSA accelerator > on Hi1620 Server SoC. We are also planning to port our AI framework on it. > > Do you think we can cooperate to create an framework in Linux together? Please > feel free to ask for more information. We are happy to answer it. Sure, that sounds like a great goal! thanks, greg k-h
