RE: [PATCH rdma-next 00/13] Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) driver

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> > I would agree if we can figure out a way to avoid the libibverbs API
> > overhead for fast path operations.
> 
> This has been available for years now, the 'dv' interface does exactly
> this sort of bypass. The Mellanox drivers in ucx, dpdk, vma, etc all
> use the dv path for datapath operations.

Something more generic that would avoid per device interfaces would be ideal.

> I think that is a consensus that EFA should build its libfabric
> provider on libibverbs & 'efadv'..

The user space implementation should be an orthogonal discussion from the kernel.

- Sean



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