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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11.* have integrated RDMA support. In This post we’ll discuss how to manage and work with the inbox RDMA packages in those distributions. Installing RDMA packages One can install all the RDMA packages manually one...
RedHat and CentOS 7.* have integrated RDMA support. In This post we'll discuss how to manage and work with the inbox RDMA packages in those distributions. Installing RDMA packages One can install all the RDMA packages manually one by one...
RedHat and CentOS 6.* have integrated RDMA support. In This post we'll discuss how to manage and work with the inbox RDMA packages in those distributions. Installing RDMA packages One can install all the RDMA packages manually one by one...
RedHat and CentOS 5.* have integrated RDMA support. In This post we'll discuss how to manage and work with the inbox RDMA packages in those distributions. Installing RDMA packages One can install all the RDMA packages manually one by one...
Here is a detailed list of the packages that handles RDMA in most popular Linux distributions, separated into categories. There names may be slightly different in different distributions. Those packages may contain executables, libraries and headers. Most libraries are separated...
By default, all Work Requests generate Work Completions when their processing is finished. However, Send Request may or may not generate Work Completions when their processing is finished - this is fully controllable by the application and this is called...
Solicited Event is a mechanism for the requester side to send a message that will generate a special (i.e. solicited) event on the responder side when the message is received. The event will be generated for the message when a...
Sometimes, within an InfiniBand fabric (i.e. a set of endnodes physically connected by cables to switches and routers) there is a need to provide an isolation between specific nodes and create "virtual fabrics" that only they will be able to...
What is RDMA? Direct memory access (DMA) is an ability of a device to access host memory directly, without the intervention of the CPU(s). RDMA (Remote DMA) is the ability of accessing (i.e. reading from or writing to) memory on...
Introduction to Endianness Let's start by answering the first question: "what is machine Endianness"? Machine Endianness refer to the way that bytes (i.e. 8 bit values) of word are ordered within memory. Bit Endian - the lower bits are saved...
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