From owner-freebsd-infiniband@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 24 11:15:01 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-infiniband@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 97C94B85 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2014 11:15:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.tdx.com (mail.tdx.com [62.13.128.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39BDF37B for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2014 11:15:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Mail-PC.tdx.co.uk (storm.tdx.co.uk [62.13.130.251]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.tdx.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/) with ESMTP id s2OBErd6044566 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 24 Mar 2014 11:14:53 GMT Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 11:14:52 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz To: Jason Bacon , freebsd-infiniband@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mellanox MT25418 performance IPOIB? Message-ID: <64FD6E0C96BA7D6812B5E7FF@Mail-PC.tdx.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <532EE153.3010903@tds.net> References: <532EE153.3010903@tds.net> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.8 (Win32) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-BeenThere: freebsd-infiniband@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Infiniband on FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 11:15:01 -0000 --On 23 March 2014 08:27 -0500 Jason Bacon wrote: > > Coincidentally, I had just run similar tests on our cluster using a > FreeBSD file server and CentOS compute nodes. > > I reported the results in to this list. If you didn't see the thread > already, you should be able to find it in the archives at: Yeah, that was before I joined the list - I missed it on Google as well, sorry :( > In response, I was informed by a Mellanox engineer that the ipoib layer > is currently being overhauled and we should see improvement later this > year. That'd be great - as it's pretty useless at the moment [380Kbyte/sec] :( - I guess I'll go back to regular NICs in the meantime, and keep an eye on this list, Regards, -Karl