> >> Yes, but I do tend to agree with the notion that efa needs to be made to > >> fit uverbs better. That means a libibverbs provider and a efacm > >> component that can map to rdma_ucm. Is that feasible? > > > > EFA supports connectionless communication. Mapping to rdma_ucm doesn't make > sense to me. > > Gal said that address libfabric connection manager is used to resolve > addressing... so there is some connection manager involved... I haven't see the libfabric provider yet, but libfabric has generic out-of-band socket-based name service that can be used by providers. I'm guessing that's what Gal is referring to. The name service is primarily there to support fabtests. In realistic use cases, those providers rely on a job manager to exchange addressing, with name service support disabled. - Sean
