IBTL(4D) Devices IBTL(4D)

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 Architecture 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 Connected (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

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(7) for a description of the following attribute:


+--------------------+-----------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+--------------------+-----------------------+
|Interface Stability | Consolidation Private |
+--------------------+-----------------------+

SEE ALSO

ib(4D), ibcm(4D), ibdm(4D), attributes(7)


InfiniBand Architecture Specification, Volume 1: Release 1.1

October 9, 2004 IBTL(4D)