On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 02:28:26PM +0000, Woodruff, Robert J wrote: > Christoph wrote, > >ping? How does OFED manage to include hardware support (for a long time > >apparently!) that's never seen any upstream exposure? > > OFED allows code that is not upstream to be included as technology > preview (not built by default) to allow people to use it. In the > case of the Xeon-Phi code that uses peer to peer PCI transfers, it > is not clear the Linux community would every accept it the way it is > now. .. and yet I haven't really seen that group in Intel participating in the p2p discussions to design something that is mergable.. This is exactly why we so strongly discourage this out of tree stuff - getting something unmergable in OFED is *NOT* Job Done, Time to Go Home. Down this path just creates another Lustre mess. Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> has been actively participating in the p2p discussions, perhaps you can arrange some internal collaboration.. Jason -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
