Re: [OMPI devel] open ib btl and xrc

2008-01-20 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 11:43:03AM -0500, Jeff Squyres wrote: > I think the main savings is that mellanox hardware works better when > fewer qp's are open. I.e., it's a resource issue on the HCA, not > necessarily a savings in posting buffers to the qp. Interesting. I hear this justification

Re: [OMPI devel] open ib btl and xrc

2008-01-20 Thread Pavel Shamis (Pasha)
It easy to see the benefit of fewer qps (per node instead of per peer) and less consumption of resources the better but I am curious about the actual percentage of memory footprint decrease. I am thinking that the largest portion of the footprint comes from the fragments. BTW here is link to