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Date:      Thu, 1 Nov 2018 04:46:28 +0300
From:      Andrew Vylegzhanin <avv314@gmail.com>
To:        rmacklem@uoguelph.ca
Cc:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net>, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-infiniband@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NFS + Infiniband problem
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cklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>:

> >Also need to test setup with infniband set from connected mode to
datagram mode.
> Are you using IPv6 by any chance?

No, I don't.

> 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
probably
> fragment the IP datagram. If any fragment is lost (or fragmentation
re-assembly
> is broken), it isn't going to work well.
> "netstat -s | fgrep "fragments dropped after"

[root@nas1 ~]# netstat -s | fgrep "fragments dropped after"
           0 fragments dropped after timeout
           0 fragments dropped after timeout

> will show you the count of fragments dropped after timeout. If this value
is
> increasing, then fragmentation re-assembly is an issue. (Check on the
receiving
> 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
IPv6
> fragmentation problem.

I'm cc'ed to freebsd-infiniband@ also, but silence.

>
> rick

--
Andrew



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