[ofa-general] Distributing ib_mthca interrupts

2009-06-01 Thread Charles Taylor
We have servers that have both IB and ethernet-only clients.The ethernet-only clients access the servers via IPoIB through a gateway.For small MTUs, the IpoIB software interrupt load can get pretty unmanageable so we would like to be able to spread the load over multiple cores.

[ofa-general] CX4 Optical Cables

2008-12-03 Thread Charles Taylor
Operational Question We have some storage nodes across the room from our IB switch and reach them with 10M copper cables.These 10M cables have been an ongoing issue for us as they fail (start showing symbol errors) fairly frequently.We decided to start replacing them with

[ofa-general] Cisco 7008 Internal/External Port Mappings

2008-07-10 Thread Charles Taylor
We've got a couple of Cisco 7008/Topspin 270 core switches.Much of the diagnostic and topology information we get from the ib diag tools in OFED refer to the internal ports rather than the actual external slot/port.We could deduce the mappings, I suppose, by tracing cables and

Re: [ofa-general] Cisco 7008 Internal/External Port Mappings

2008-07-10 Thread Charles Taylor
UF HPC Center On Jul 10, 2008, at 5:36 PM, Hal Rosenstock wrote: On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 17:27 -0400, Charles Taylor wrote: We've got a couple of Cisco 7008/Topspin 270 core switches.Much of the diagnostic and topology information we get from the ib diag tools in OFED refer to the internal

Re: [ofa-general] Test programs supporting RNIC's.

2008-04-10 Thread Charles Taylor
We might be interested in helping with this as well. Charlie Taylor UF HPC Center On Apr 10, 2008, at 12:06 AM, Krishna Kumar2 wrote: Hi Steve, Steve Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 04/09/2008 07:33:35 PM: Krishna, if you are interested, you could add cma support to the rest of these.

[ofa-general] iWARP cm_id's

2008-03-07 Thread Charles Taylor
The provider layer listen() call is passed a cm_id and a backlog. The accept() call is passed a cm_id, and a conn_param. I'm wondering if there is (or should be) any relationship between the cm_id associated with the creation of the listen service and the cm_ids passed in for

[ofa-general] Re: [Lustre-discuss] kernel-2.6.18-8.1.14 + lustre 1.6.4.2 + OFED 1.2

2008-02-18 Thread Charles Taylor
. Sigh, Charlie Taylor UF HPC Center On Feb 18, 2008, at 11:35 AM, Aaron Knister wrote: On Feb 18, 2008, at 11:20 AM, Charles Taylor wrote: We seemed to have it a stumbling block when building with the above (supported) versions.Our process... 1. Start with stock rhel5 2.6.18-8.1.14

[ofa-general] RDMA/CM Spec

2007-12-16 Thread Charles Taylor
I'm a little bit new to OFED/RDMA development and can't seem to find a spec or rfc describing the rdma/cm layer. I don't see it in the iWARP consortium RDMAP spec (not even a reference to it) and googling turns up mainly references to the OFA-general mailing list. Is there a spec