man pages section 4: Device and Network Interfaces

ibcm(4D)

Name

ibcm - Solaris InfiniBand Communication Manager

Description

The Solaris InfiniBand Communication Manager (IBCM) is a Solaris kernel misc module that adheres to the InfiniBand Architecture Specification, Volume 1: Release 1.1 for InfiniBand Communication Management Class.

IBCM provides a transport layer abstraction to IB clients to set up reliable connected channels along with service, multicast, and path lookup-related functionality. IBCM implements the CM protocol as per the InfiniBand Architecture Specification, Volume 1: Release 1.1 and utilizes the InfiniBand Management Framework module for all IB management-related functionality and the InfiniBand Transport Layer (see ibtl(4D)) for all IB Verbs-related functionality.

Files

/kernel/misc/amd64/ibcm

64-bit x86 ELF kernel module

/kernel/misc/sparcv9/ibcm

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 Availability system/io/infiniband

See Also

ibtl(4D), attributes(7)

InfiniBand Architecture Specification, Volume 1: Release 1.1