1ibtl(7D)                            Devices                           ibtl(7D)
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NAME

6       ibtl - Solaris InfiniBand Transport Layer
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DESCRIPTION

9       InfiniBand  (IB)  is  an  I/O technology based on switched fabrics. The
10       Solaris InfiniBand Transport Layer (IBTL) is a Solaris kernel misc mod‐
11       ule  and  adheres  to the IB Architecture Version 1.1 specification and
12       provides a transport layer abstraction to IB client drivers.
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15       IBTL implements the programming interfaces for the  Solaris  InfiniBand
16       Transport Framework (IBTF), consisting of the IB Channel Interface (CI)
17       and the IB Transport Interface (TI).
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20       The CI consists of Host Channel Adapters (HCAs) and HCA drivers. A host
21       is  attached to the IB fabric through the CI layer. The Solaris Infini‐
22       Band CI is Sun's API rendering of the  InfiniBand  Architecture  (IBTA)
23       "verbs" specification.
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26       The  Solaris  InfiniBand TI is the kernel service driver interface into
27       the Solaris InfiniBand Transport Framework. It provides  transport  and
28       communications  setup  programming  interfaces  for Unreliable Datagram
29       (UD) and Reliable Connected (RC) transport types only.
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FILES

32       /kernel/misc/ibtl            32-bit x86 ELF kernel misc module
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35       /kernel/misc/amd64/ibtl      64-bit x86 ELF kernel misc module
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38       /kernel/misc/sparcv9/ibtl    64-bit SPARC ELF kernel module
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ATTRIBUTES

42       See attributes(5) for a description of the following attribute:
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47       ┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
48       │ATTRIBUTE TYPE               │ATTRIBUTE VALUE              │
49       ├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
50       │Interface Stability          │Consolidation Private        │
51       ├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
52       │Availability                 │SUNWhea, SUNWib              │
53       └─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
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SEE ALSO

56       attributes(5), ib(7D), ibcm(7D), ibdm(7D)
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59       InfiniBand Architecture Specification, Volume 1: Release 1.1
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63SunOS 5.11                        9 Oct 2004                          ibtl(7D)
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