Have you done any "load" analysis of a 2K .vs. 4K MTU ?
Your analogy of having 2G as a total message size is potentially
flawed. You seem to assume that 2G is the end-all in size, it is not.
What about when you want to (down the road) use IB for files in the
1-10TB in size. Granted, we can live with 2G, but it is not some
nirvana number. Second, with the 2G limit on messages sizes, only
determines the upper bound in overall size, I could send 2G @ 32bytes
MTU. So, the question is, how much less of a system load/impact would
a 4K MTU be over a 2K MTU. Remember, even Ethernet finally decided to
go to Jumbo Frames, why, system impact and more. Remember HIPPI/GSN,
the MTU was 64K, reason, system impact. The numbers I have seen
running IPoIB really impact the system.
Steve...
At 10:38 AM -0800 1/5/05, Diego Crupnicoff wrote:
Note however that the relevant IB limit is the max ***message size*** which happens to be equal to the ***IB*** MTU for the current IPoIB (that runs on top of IB UD transport service where IB messages are limited to a single packet).
A connected mode IPoIB (that runs on top of IB RC/UC transport service) would allow IB messages up to 2GB long. That will allow for much larger (effectively as large as you may ever dream of) ***IP*** MTUs, regardless of the underlying IB MTU.
Diego
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hal Rosenstock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 2:21 PM
> To: Peter Buckingham
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>
> On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 12:23, Peter Buckingham wrote:
> > stupid question: why are we limited to a 2K MTU for IPoIB?
>
> The IB max MTU is 4K. The current HCAs support a max MTU of 2K.
>
> -- Hal
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