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Date:      Sat, 30 Apr 2016 13:52:05 +0100
From:      Justin Clift <justin@postgresql.org>
To:        Jason Bacon <bacon4000@gmail.com>
Cc:        Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>, =?windows-1252?Q?Vin=EDcius_Ferr=E3o?= <ferrao@vmio.com.br>, "freebsd-infiniband@freebsd.org" <freebsd-infiniband@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: QLogic IBA7322 QDR InfiniBand HCA on 10.3-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <001FE6A2-112B-40B2-BC38-C19A57012EA7@postgresql.org>
In-Reply-To: <57249865.9060301@gmail.com>
References:  <1E132EAE-8287-4407-BBBD-25319FB0091C@vmio.com.br> <5724759A.1090805@selasky.org> <DE928305-EFA5-410D-B21D-A0666AF72220@postgresql.org> <57249865.9060301@gmail.com>

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On 30 Apr 2016, at 12:35, Jason Bacon <bacon4000@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 04/30/16 05:56, Justin Clift wrote:
>> On 30 Apr 2016, at 10:06, Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org> =
wrote:
>>> On 04/30/16 09:54, Vin=EDcius Ferr=E3o wrote:
>>>> Hello guys,
>>>>=20
>>>> I=92m playing with Inifinband for the first time on FreeBSD and I =
already have problems with it. I=92ve got a machine with this card in =
specific and I=92m trying to use this card without any success.
>>>>=20
>>>> pciconf -lv outputs this:
>>>> root@freebsd1:~ # pciconf -lv | grep -i Qlogic -A3 -B1
>>>> none17@pci0:2:0:0: class=3D0x0c0600 card=3D0x73221077 =
chip=3D0x73221077 rev=3D0x02 hdr=3D0x00
>>>>     vendor     =3D 'QLogic Corp.'
>>>>     device     =3D 'IBA7322 QDR InfiniBand HCA'
>>>>     class      =3D serial bus
>>>>=20
>>>> So at least the system is aware of the card, but I can=92t see it =
on dmesg, so something is missing. Drivers? Support? Kernel Module?
>>>>=20
>>>> I came across this webpage https://wiki.freebsd.org/InfiniBand and =
cannot find the card on the table of supported hardware, so at this =
point I started to believe that the card is just unsupported.
>>>>=20
>>>> But here we are on the mailing list, to see if anyone can help.
>>>>=20
>>>> Thanks in advance.
>>> Hi,
>>>=20
>>> Try loading qlxgb or qlxgbe.
>> Hmmm, between them, the man pages for qlxgb and qlxgbe say they =
support:
>>=20
>>  * QLogic 3200 series (qlxgb)
>>  * QLogic 8200 series (qlxgb)
>>  * QLogic 8300 series (qlxgbe)
>>=20
>> Should we add them to the "hardware support by release" table?
>>=20
>> Vin=EDcius, with your card, do you know the exact model number?  =
IBA7322
>> seems to be the controller chip on the card itself, not the adapter =
model
>> number, so it's hard to tell which series it belong too.
>>=20
>> Saying that from looking through the QLogic IB Adapters PDF:
>>=20
>>   =
http://filedownloads.qlogic.com/files/driver/78254/Install_Guide_QLogic_IB=
_Adapters_A.pdf
>>=20
>> Page 3-5 mentions it, as well as Figure 3-1 on that same page. :)
>=20
> I'm not seeing any mention of Infiniband support in the 3200 or 8x00 =
series cards.  They look to be strictly 10 GBE.

Ahhh, that explains a few things then. :)

+ Justin

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