Re: Tutorials/howto to modify exiting tcp/ip app for rdma

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On 11/27/2014 10:20 AM, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
> On 11/27/2014 4:39 PM, Vasiliy Tolstov wrote:
>> 2014-11-27 16:39 GMT+03:00 Sagi Grimberg <sagig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>> You can keep doing IP address resolution using rdma_cm.
>>>
>>> You can see perftest examples in
>>> git://flatbed.openfabrics.org/~grockah/perftest.git
>>> Or,
>>> librdmacm's rping in git://flatbed.openfabrics.org/~shefty/librdmacm.git
>>
>>
>> Thanks! But if don't have ipoib connection why i need ip address ?=)
>>
> 
> My understanding was that you want to _add_ support for RDMA to a
> working tcp/ip application, the natural thing is using rdma_cm.
> 
> If you want to replace IP address resolution you need to start
> communicating with the SM.

rsockets now supports AF_IB address family (assuming kernel does too -
3.11 or beyond) but you need the path record to the destination IB
address (GID) to make the connection so that involves an SA query or the
equivalent...

-- Hal

> 
> srptools is a nice example for that:
> git://flatbed.openfabrics.org/~bvanassche/srptools.git/.git
> 
> Sagi.
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