From: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] pcie for inter machine comms
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 13:20:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP6exYLfHOROhZsA-D2+wrMPVwyp7rwwAtvHEf9hJadM+nF7hA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ab3d578ec98f9a8c108696c862c358aa@orthanc.ca>
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
<lyndon@orthanc.ca> wrote:
>> This seems to come up with every new generation of a new bus, such as
>> pci or lately pcie. It has a lot of limits and, eventually, people
>> just go with a fast network. For one thing, it doesn't grow that big
>> and, for another, error handling can be interesting.
>
> Has anyone done up a driver for an infiniband interface?
let's not go there.
we looked at it in 2005 and the IB stack is so awful that it's not
something anyone wants to touch. It works on LInux, works on few other
systems, it's pretty much a headache.
There's a reason that some Big Companies got out of IB.
ron
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-06 20:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-06 9:06 Steve Simon
2011-07-06 10:46 ` Richard Miller
2011-07-06 17:11 ` erik quanstrom
2011-07-06 17:18 ` ron minnich
2011-07-06 19:08 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2011-07-06 20:20 ` ron minnich [this message]
[not found] ` <CAP6exYLfHOROhZsA-D2+wrMPVwyp7rwwAtvHEf9hJadM+nF7hA@mail.gmail.c>
2011-07-07 16:41 ` erik quanstrom
2011-07-08 9:34 ` Richard Miller
2011-07-06 20:57 ` Charles Forsyth
2011-07-06 17:30 ` Jack
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