The Previous Part
Part 1 introduced basic concepts and terminology and consisted of the following chapters:
Chapter 1—Basic Terms and Concepts.
Chapter 2—Intro to Attributes and Managers.
Chapter 3—QP: Message Transfer Mechanism.
Chapter 4—Intro to Transport Types.
Chapter 5—Intro to Send/Receive Operations.
Chapter 6—Division of Labor.
Chapter 7—Subnet-Local Addressing.
Chapter 8—Global Addressing.
Chapter 9—Intro to the Managers.
Chapter 10—Intro to Connection Establishment.
Chapter 11—PSN Usage.
This Part
Part 2 begins the portion of the book that provides detailed information about the InfiniBand technology.
Part 2 provides a detailed description of the creation of, the management of, and the basic operation of the various types of Queue Pairs. Part 2 consists of the following chapters:
Chapter 12—QP Verbs and QP State Machine.
Chapter 13—WRs, WQEs, and CQEs.
Chapter 14—Asynchronous Events and Errors.
The Next Part
Part 3 introduces memory management, memory protection, and the various other protection mechanisms available in the InfiniBand environment. Part 3 consists of the following chapters:
Chapter 15—Memory Protection.
Chapter 16—Other Protection Mechanisms.