[rds-devel] How to demand-load RDS transports?

Greg Lindahl lindahl at pbm.com
Fri Jul 17 01:01:09 PDT 2009


On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 05:12:47PM -0700, Andy Grover wrote:

> Is it possible (with udev perhaps?) to remove the IB calls from rds.ko,
> and get rds-rdma.ko loaded some other way when rds.ko is loaded and IB
> hw is present? Any pointers appreciated.

One way would be to look through lspci output in an initscript. That
would work for IB devices, there are only a few and they all have the
property of being IB devices.

Or, generically, you can add stuff to /etc/modprobe.conf or
equivalent.

-- greg





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