Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 13:52:25 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Gergely CZUCZY <phoemix@harmless.hu> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ? Message-ID: <201207021352.26014.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20120702192329.000074c0@unknown> References: <CAOgwaMvsv3e1TxDauV038Pp7LRiYeH7oAODE%2Bw-pxHt9oGrXMA@mail.gmail.com> <201207021055.04326.jhb@freebsd.org> <20120702192329.000074c0@unknown>
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On Monday, July 02, 2012 1:23:29 pm Gergely CZUCZY wrote: > On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 10:55:04 -0400 > John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> 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
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