Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 06:51:02 +0000 From: Oded Shanoon <odeds@mellanox.com> To: Jason Bacon <jwbacon@tds.net>, Anthony Cornehl <accornehl@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-infiniband@freebsd.org" <freebsd-infiniband@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Supported NICs Message-ID: <058596FC127BDB469D7D60F04E37C63F7351B162@MTLDAG02.mtl.com> In-Reply-To: <52370835.7020901@tds.net> References: <52361685.8000901@tds.net> <CAAoDvRxtKZ4AH5MTC5xi9TrXgcFr7MWGpJ3ODa-Vz0WCANkC_A@mail.gmail.com> <CAAoDvRwaDT6d8goNpvSp4jVYcSm4cZZLLqa2gCxn8EjSiLFHpA@mail.gmail.com> <52370835.7020901@tds.net>
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Hi Jason, IB support in 9.2 is supposed to be stable enough. Please note that Mellanox started supporting FreeBSD only recently. The dri= ver in 9.2 was ported by someone from Isilon (Jeff Roberson) from OFA-1.5.3= . Since we started our involvement we entered some fixes to that driver (that= were submitted into 9.2). We also mapped various issues which needs to be fixed in the future. We are now working on a major "face lift" to the driver - making it much mo= re stable and with improved performance and features. Regards, Oded Shanoon OFED-FreeBSD Team Leader Mellanox Technologies, Raanana -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-infiniband@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-infiniband= @freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Jason Bacon Sent: Monday, September 16, 2013 4:32 PM To: Anthony Cornehl Cc: freebsd-infiniband@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Supported NICs Thanks Anthony & Oded! Would you say that IB support in 9.2 is stable enough for a production HPC = file server? Will do plenty of my own testing first, of course. Regards, Jason On 09/15/13 22:38, Anthony Cornehl wrote: > > > On Sep 15, 2013 8:17 PM, "Anthony Cornehl" <accornehl@gmail.com=20 > <mailto:accornehl@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > > > On Sep 15, 2013 1:20 PM, "Jason bacon" <jwbacon@tds.net > <mailto:jwbacon@tds.net>> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Is there a list of supported IB NICs out there somewhere? > > > > > > I followed the wiki instructions for rebuilding with IB support > and now have mlx4ib, mlxen, etc. > > > > > > Was hoping there would be man pages for the drivers that list > known working cards, but there don't seem to be. I'm hoping to test a=20 > file server using IPOIB and possible roll a FreeNAS ISO with IB=20 > support if it works out. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > -- > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > Jason W. Bacon > > > jwbacon@tds.net <mailto:jwbacon@tds.net> > > > > > > Circumstances don't make a man: > > > They reveal him. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > freebsd-infiniband@freebsd.org > <mailto:freebsd-infiniband@freebsd.org> mailing list > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-infiniband > > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-infiniband-unsubscribe@freebsd.org > <mailto:freebsd-infiniband-unsubscribe@freebsd.org>" > > > > Hey Jason, > > > > Mellanox ConnectX series cards are the only ones supported currently... > > > > http://www.mellanox.com/page/infiniband_cards_overview > > > > Don't forget to compile with IPoIB as well, since the IPoIB support > is compiled into the driver, unlike in Linux. > > > > Just be aware that IPoIB performance is also improved by enabling > connected mode when you compile the kernel module. The IB code in=20 > FreeBSD is a few years older the what is in Linux, but, the following=20 > forum thread is probably relevant... > > > >=20 > http://forums.servethehome.com/networking/1554-infiniband-ipoib-perfor > mance-problems.html > > > > Cheers! > > It also appears that Jeff fixed SDP a few weeks ago, which is more=20 > capable of reaching line-speed for IB-connected devices. > > http://pkg-ofed.alioth.debian.org/howto/infiniband-howto-7.html > > Cheers! > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jason W. Bacon jwbacon@tds.net Circumstances don't make a man: They reveal him. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ freebsd-infiniband@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailma= n/listinfo/freebsd-infiniband To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-infiniband-unsubscribe@freebsd.or= g"
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