From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 2 18:06:55 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D8F5106564A for ; Mon, 2 Jul 2012 18:06:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (bigknife-pt.tunnel.tserv9.chi1.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f10:75::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 250DF8FC0C for ; Mon, 2 Jul 2012 18:06:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from jhbbsd.localnet (unknown [209.249.190.124]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8AA9DB926; Mon, 2 Jul 2012 14:06:54 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Gergely CZUCZY Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 13:52:25 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/8.2-CBSD-20110714-p17; KDE/4.5.5; amd64; ; ) References: <201207021055.04326.jhb@freebsd.org> <20120702192329.000074c0@unknown> In-Reply-To: <20120702192329.000074c0@unknown> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201207021352.26014.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Mon, 02 Jul 2012 14:06:54 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2012 18:06:55 -0000 On Monday, July 02, 2012 1:23:29 pm Gergely CZUCZY wrote: > On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 10:55:04 -0400 > John Baldwin wrote: > > > On Friday, June 29, 2012 5:50:05 am Gergely CZUCZY wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I'm mostly using freebsd, but there are a few cases where it's > > > impossible to do, and because of these, i'm not using fbsd there. > > > > > > These reasons are mostly are: > > > - Lack of a working infiniband/OFED stack, with all its utils, > > > mellanox connectX3 drivers, RDMA, iscsi-over-RDMA, nfs-over-RDMA, > > > and such things. > > > > FYI, OFED is present in 9.0 and later including mellanox drivers. > > RDMA should be present, but I've no idea about iscsi-over-RDMA or > > nfs-over-RDMA. > > Agreed, it's present. However, it's not in a functional state. Half of > the toolkit is missing, and we couldn't get out of the system any > better than icmp responses. any other means of communication failed to > work. Yup, present, but not functional :) Hmm, in my local testing we've been able to use the 40G mlxen(4) adapters fine with the OFED stack. I believe we have also done a bit more involved testing on the IB side than just ping as well (at least RX and TX of UDP packets). -- John Baldwin