From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 13:20:20 -0700 Message-ID: From: ron minnich To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [9fans] pcie for inter machine comms Topicbox-Message-UUID: fb32b6c8-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX) 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