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Date:      Thu, 1 Nov 2018 00:27:16 +0000
From:      Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>
To:        Andrew Vylegzhanin <avv314@gmail.com>
Cc:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>, "freebsd-fs@freebsd.org" <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-infiniband@freebsd.org" <freebsd-infiniband@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: NFS + Infiniband problem
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Andrew Vylegzhanin wrote:
[stuff snipped]
>With this TCP settings same server serve NFS requests via 40G Ethernet on =
multiply >clients with speed via 1G Eth ~ 105/110 MB/sec  write/read.
>Of course I'll try to change congestion algorithm, but I don't think that =
will help.
Yes, I doubt changing the congestion algorithm will make much difference.

>Also need to test setup with infniband set from connected mode to datagram=
 mode.
Are you using IPv6 by any chance?
Why I ask is that there was a problem with IPv6 fragmentation re-assembly. =
If
InfiniBand is using a larger MTU than the ethernet, the switch would probab=
ly
fragment the IP datagram. If any fragment is lost (or fragmentation re-asse=
mbly
is broken), it isn't going to work well.
"netstat -s | fgrep "fragments dropped after"
will show you the count of fragments dropped after timeout. If this value i=
s
increasing, then fragmentation re-assembly is an issue. (Check on the recei=
ving
end. The server for writes.)

You might want to post on freebsd-net@, since someone there might know more
about InfiniBand (and someone over there will definitely know about the IPv=
6
fragmentation problem.

rick=



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