OK, IB back to back is at 1,2 GB/s, 10GE back to back at 950 MB/s, with 
additional lnet router I see 550 MB/s. Time for lnet tuning?

Michael

> Hi Andreas,
> 
> Am 10.09.2010 um 16:35 schrieb Andreas Dilger:
> 
>> On 2010-09-10, at 08:23, Michael Kluge wrote:
>>> I have a Lustre 1.8.3 setup where I'd like to some lnet router performance 
>>> tests with routing between DDR IB<->10GE networks. Currently I have three 
>>> nodes, one with DDR IB, one with 10GE and one with both that does the 
>>> routing. A first short lnet test shows 520-550 MB/s performance. 
>>> 
>>> Has anyone an idea which of the variables of the lnet module are worth 
>>> playing with to get this number a bit closer to 1GB/s? 
>> 
>> I would start by testing the performance on just the 10GigE side, and then 
>> separately on the IB side, to verify you are getting the expected 
>> performance from the components before trying them both together.  Often it 
>> is necessary to tune the ethernet send/receive buffers.
> 
> Ethernet back to back is at 950 MB/s. I have not looked at IB back to back 
> yet.
> 
> 
> Michael
> 
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Michael Kluge, M.Sc.

Technische Universität Dresden
Center for Information Services and
High Performance Computing (ZIH)
D-01062 Dresden
Germany

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