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Subject: Re: InfiniBand BOF @ LSM - topics of interest
To: woody@co.intel.com (Woodruff, Robert J)
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 01:32:09 +0100 (BST)
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> so someone could invent a new address family for sockets,
> say AF_INFINIBANDO, that is much more light weight than the existing TCP/IP
> stack.
> Thus with a small change to the application, a good performance increase can
> be attained.

Shouldn't be too hard. It looks like its basically AF_PACKET combined with
the infiniband notions of security.