EFADV(7)

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💅 NAME 💅

okay so welcome to the EFADV(7) page from the EFA Direct Verbs Manual, bestie. This is all about efadv — Direct verbs for efa devices. It provides low level access to efa devices to perform direct operations, without general branching performed by libibverbs. ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

The libibverbs API is an abstract one. It’s agnostic to any underlying provider specific implementation. And like, that abstraction has the advantage of user applications portability — iconic for portability — but it has a performance penalty. 😭

For some applications optimizing performance is more important than portability. No cap, that’s just the tradeoff.

The efa direct verbs API is intended for such applications. It exposes efa specific low level operations, allowing the application to bypass the libibverbs API. It’s giving “skip the middleman, go straight to the device.” 💅

The direct include of efadv.h together with linkage to the efa library will allow usage of this new interface. That’s the whole vibe check, fr fr. 🎀

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

  • verbs(7) — the classic bestie to check out.

👑 AUTHORS 👑

  • Gal Pressman <galpress@amazon.com>

and that’s the page, bestie 🫶 source/version is efa, dated 2019-01-19, and the footer energy is EFADV(7) — slay 💖✨

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