Re: Upcoming libibverbs release

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On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 02:12:19PM -0500, Steve Wise wrote:

> I haven't been following this (long) thread closely enough, but I hope any new
> functionality is not _breaking_ existing applications from using _currently
> supported_ providers?  I thought all this CQ accessor cruft was backwards
> compatible.  Perhaps I'm wrong?

As merged, the new API simply does not work without provider support.

The old API keeps working of course.

The fundamental question is if it is acceptable for libibverbs to ship
a new core provider agnostic API (cq polling) that is optional
depending on provider.

I say no, that is not acceptable.

Jason
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