Greg Lindahl wrote: > On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 07:53:06AM -0500, Hubbell, Sean C Contractor/Decibel > wrote: > > >> I currently have several applications that uses a legacy IPv4 protocol >> and I use IPoIB to utilize my infiniband network which works great. I >> have completed some timing and throughput analysis and noticed that I do >> not get very much more if I use an infiniband network interface than >> using my GigE network interface. >> > > You might want to note that different InfinBand implementations have > quite different performance of IPoIB, especially for UDP. > > Another issue is that IPoIB has quite different performance with > different Linux kernels. This is especially evident for TCP, although > you can use SDP to accelerate TCP sockets and avoid this issue. > > We are currently looking at the new tickless kernel. Do you have one that you recommend?
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