On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 06:16:40PM +0200, Martin Gasthuber wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   being a totally new to Lustre we started with a simple (2x OST + 1  
> MDT + 3 clients) configuration completely build on tcp (GigE) using  
> RHEL 4 and Lustre 1.6.0.1. This all works as expected ! We than  
> started to look at the performance figures and equipped each machine  
> with a Mellanox 23108 (sdr) HCA and connected all to a single  
> 'MT47396 Infiniscale-III' switch. We installed OFED 1.2 (and also  
> Lustre 1.6.1) checked the IB (according to OFED docs) - but no data  
> flow through the IB network ! We found no clear (at least for us)  
> hints how to 'convince' Lustre to make use of the new IB network. Any  
> stupid, simple switch we might have forgotten ???
> 

What's the lnet module parameters in your modprobe.conf? If you
haven't specified any, please read a bit on lnet first:
http://manual.lustre.org/manual/LustreManual16_HTML/DynamicHTML-02-1.html
http://manual.lustre.org/manual/LustreManual16_HTML/DynamicHTML-05-1.html

The Lustre Networking White Paper is also a good read:
http://www.clusterfs.com/images/Docs/lustrenetworking_whitepaper_v4.pdf

Hope this helps,
Isaac

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