1. kfabric – network options
01/09/2017
Paul Grun

2. Objective
Work has been invested in developing the infrastructure to support kfabric development
including an existing verbs provider
But sustained effort on kfabric is awaiting a compelling, native network
Is there useful work that could be done in the meantime to preserve the existing investment?
ISC 2013

3. Network Options API kfabric verbs provider kfabric OPA1 NIC OPA 1
IB, RoCE, iWARP
HCA, NIC,
RNIC
kfabric
OPA1 NIC
OPA 1
provider
over
OPA1
kfabric
Enet
NIC
sockets
provider
over
sockets
tbd
NIC
ksockets
provider
sockets over kfabric
kfabric
PCIe
NTB
provider
kfabric over PCIe/NTB
kfabric
GNI
provider
kfabric over
provider
device
Target network