On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 09:00:24PM -0800, Dimitrios Dimitropoulos wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking to connect an RDMA hardware accelerator to a Centos 8.0 > server with RoCE_V2 capability. > > Is there a way to implement RDMA RC functionality without invoking the > Connection Manager (skipping the rdma_create_event_channel()) ? > Perhaps with a simple exchange of the necessary information through an > external protocol, say UDP packets ? And then initialize the QPs with > the received parameters. You can do it without RDMA-CM, see libibverbs//examples/rc_pingpong.c for exactly that. Thanks