If it is for academic purposes, I suggest using glusterfs-3.12.x or glusterfs-5.x series with RDMA... That would give an idea.
-Amar On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 7:44 PM Liu, Changcheng <changcheng....@intel.com> wrote: > Thanks Rafi-KC & Tumbali. > I'm working on developing RDMA in Ceph and doing some investigating about > RDMA usage in distributed storage system. > It's unlucky that GlusterFs won't support RDMA now. > > For IPoIB, I'll try to evaluate its performance versus RDMA(RoCEv2 & > iWARP). > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rafi Kavungal Chundattu Parambil [mailto:rkavu...@redhat.com] > Sent: Monday, October 7, 2019 5:07 PM > To: Liu, Changcheng <changcheng....@intel.com> > Cc: yk...@redhat.com; gluster-devel@gluster.org > Subject: Re: RDMA in GlusterFs > > Hi Liu, > > RDMA support in GlusterFS has been dropped from the latest release and > removed from the codebase. You can find more details here in the mail sent > as the proposal to drop the feature[1]. > > <snippet from proposal mail> > Gluster > started supporting RDMA while ib-verbs was still new, and very high-end > infra around that time were using Infiniband. Engineers did work with > Mellanox, and got the technology into GlusterFS for better data migration, > data copy. While current day kernels support very good speed with IPoIB > module itself, and there are no more bandwidth for experts in these area to > maintain the feature, we recommend migrating over to TCP (IP based) network > for your volume.If you are successfully using RDMA transport, do get in > touch with us to prioritize the migration plan for your volume. Plan is to > work on this after the release, so by version 6.0, we will have a cleaner > transport code, which just needs to support one type. > </end od snippet> > > That said, Officially GlusterFs doesn't support RDMA on master branch. > > [1] : > https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2018-July/034400.html > > > Regards > Rafi KC > > > > > > Does anyone use RDMA in Glusterfs before? What’s RDMA usability in > > Glusterfs now? > > > > > > > > *From:* Liu, Changcheng > > *Sent:* Tuesday, October 1, 2019 11:24 PM > > *To:* 'Yaniv Kaul' <yk...@redhat.com>; 'Amar Tumballi' > > <ama...@redhat.com> > > *Cc:* 'gluster-devel@gluster.org' <gluster-devel@gluster.org> > > *Subject:* RE: RDMA in GlusterFs > > > > > > > > Does anyone know whether Glusterfs support RDMA or not in master > > branch now? > > > > > > > > *From:* Liu, Changcheng > > *Sent:* Tuesday, October 1, 2019 12:16 AM > > *To:* Yaniv Kaul <yk...@redhat.com>; Amar Tumballi <ama...@redhat.com> > > *Cc:* gluster-devel@gluster.org > > *Subject:* RDMA in GlusterFs > > > > > > > > Hi Yaniv Kaul & Amar Tumbali > > > > Upstream question: > > > > Does Glusterfs support RDMA after below PR is merged? > > > > ibverbs/rdma: remove from build: > > https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/commit/8f37561d665b > > > > > > > > B.R. > > > > Changcheng > > >
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