Hi, On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 10:35 PM, Chuck Ritter <cfr...@psu.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 6:30 AM, Vivek Satpute <vivekonlin...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi Ritter, > > > >> > And why those examples in libibverbs-1.1.2 package takes IP address ? > >> > Do you have any idea about that ? > >> > >> Why not? > >> > >> I think hostnames and ips were used because they uniquely identify a > >> node. Why create a parallel naming scheme? It just adds more data to > >> track. > >> > > I agree with this that why there should be parallel naming scheme. But > > Infiniband devices already have LID and GID naming system to identify > > devices > > So instead of using IP address to uniquely identify, we can use those > > LID/GID. > > Am I right ? > > That would have been another possibility. > > You could say the same about the SCSI bus. LUN and bus information is > mapped to an abstract device so that the user does not have to deal > with those low level details. In the case of SCSI, the OS handles > that... maps it into devices. I think IB somewhat follows that model. > > Yope. Maybe you are right. > C > Thanks, Vivek
