Devices                                                  ibtl(7D)



NAME
     ibtl - Solaris InfiniBand Transport Layer

DESCRIPTION
     InfiniBand (IB) is  an  I/O  technology  based  on  switched
     fabrics.  The Solaris InfiniBand Transport Layer (IBTL) is a
     Solaris kernel misc module and adheres to the  IB  Architec-
     ture  Version  1.1  specification  and  provides a transport
     layer abstraction to IB client drivers.


     IBTL implements the programming interfaces for  the  Solaris
     InfiniBand  Transport Framework (IBTF), consisting of the IB
     Channel Interface (CI) and the IB Transport Interface (TI).


     The CI consists of Host  Channel  Adapters  (HCAs)  and  HCA
     drivers.  A host is attached to the IB fabric through the CI
     layer. The Solaris InfiniBand CI is Sun's API  rendering  of
     the InfiniBand Architecture (IBTA) "verbs" specification.


     The Solaris InfiniBand  TI  is  the  kernel  service  driver
     interface  into  the Solaris InfiniBand Transport Framework.
     It provides transport and communications  setup  programming
     interfaces  for  Unreliable  Datagram (UD) and Reliable Con-
     nected (RC) transport types only.

FILES
     /kernel/misc/ibtl            32-bit  x86  ELF  kernel   misc
                                  module


     /kernel/misc/amd64/ibtl      64-bit  x86  ELF  kernel   misc
                                  module


     /kernel/misc/sparcv9/ibtl    64-bit SPARC ELF kernel module


ATRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for a description of the following  attri-
     bute:












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Devices                                                  ibtl(7D)



     
     ATRIBUTE TYPE               ATRIBUTE VALUE             
    
     Interface Stability          Consolidation Private       
    
     Availability                 SUNWhea, SUNWib             
    


SEE ALSO
     attributes(5), ib(7D), ibcm(7D), ibdm(7D)


     InfiniBand Architecture Specification, Volume 1: Release 1.1









































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