Re: [openib-general] Interrupt Threshold Rate equivalent in Infiniband NIC

2006-08-30 Thread harish
Hi Roland, Thanks. I guess then the only neat solution is NAPI. I shall keep you posted if we can get NAPI implemented in the meanwhile. thanks, harishOn 8/29/06, Roland Dreier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: harish Hi Roland, I was hoping that the function will take careharish of that by introducing

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH 02/13] IB/ehca: includes

2006-08-30 Thread Hoang-Nam Nguyen
Christoph Raisch wrote on 18.08.2006 17:35:54: we'll change these EDEBs to a wrapper around dev_err, dev_dbg and dev_warn as it's done in the mthca driver. All EDEB_EN and EDEB_EX will be removed, that type of tracing can be done if needed by kprobes. There are a few cases where we won't get

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH 02/13] IB/ehca: includes

2006-08-30 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Wednesday 30 August 2006 11:13, Hoang-Nam Nguyen wrote: Further comments/suggestions are appreciated! There are a few places in the driver where you declare external variables (mostly ehca_module and ehca_debug_level) from C files instead of a header. This sometimes leads to bugs when a type

Re: [openib-general] Utilities for sending traffic with different SL

2006-08-30 Thread Hal Rosenstock
Hi Suri, On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 16:42, Suresh Shelvapille wrote: Folks: Is there a utility within the OFED1.0 package which can be used for generating traffic on different SL (akin to the Voltaire perf_main utility)? With OpenSM, you can configure an SL per IPoIB based partition and use any

Re: [openib-general] ibv_poll_cq

2006-08-30 Thread Dotan Barak
Hi. john t wrote: Hi, In one of my multi-threaded application (simple send/recv application written using uverbs), I am repeatedly getting an error code 12 (IB_WC_RETRY_EXC_ERR) from ibv_poll_cq. Not able to figure out what is going wrong. Cam some one please give a suggestion so that

Re: [openib-general] libibcm can't open /dev/infiniband/ucm0

2006-08-30 Thread Tziporet Koren
Sean Hefty wrote: So I assume this to be a bug at least in the README file. I'm not the kernel expert to tell where else this has to be changed. Only the README file should need updating. We also updated the README of OFED Tziporet ___

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH 02/13] IB/ehca: includes

2006-08-30 Thread Tziporet Koren
Hoang-Nam Nguyen wrote: We incorporated those changes throughout ehca code, which is accessible from Roland's git tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband.git for-2.6.19 Hi Marcus Hoang-Nam, RC3 is almost closed (going to be out tomorrow). Following this

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH 02/13] IB/ehca: includes

2006-08-30 Thread Hoang-Nam Nguyen
Hi Tziporet! RC3 is almost closed (going to be out tomorrow). Following this mail I wish to know if we need to update ehca for RC4. I'm generating a patch against OFED git tree ehca_branch and could provide you with a patch today if that makes sense to you. In the meanwhile we've made some local

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH] opensm: libibmad: rpc API which supports more than one ports.

2006-08-30 Thread Hal Rosenstock
Hi Sasha, On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 21:29, Sasha Khapyorsky wrote: Hi Hal, On 20:09 Tue 29 Aug , Hal Rosenstock wrote: Hi Sasha, On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 09:17, Sasha Khapyorsky wrote: This provides RPC like API which may work with several ports. I think you mean can work rather

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH] opensm: libibmad: rpc API which supports more than one ports.

2006-08-30 Thread Hal Rosenstock
On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 09:17, Sasha Khapyorsky wrote: This provides RPC like API which may work with several ports. Signed-off-by: Sasha Khapyorsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- libibmad/include/infiniband/mad.h |9 +++ libibmad/src/libibmad.map |4 + libibmad/src/register.c

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH 02/13] IB/ehca: includes

2006-08-30 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoting r. Hoang-Nam Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/13] IB/ehca: includes Hi Tziporet! RC3 is almost closed (going to be out tomorrow). Following this mail I wish to know if we need to update ehca for RC4. I'm generating a patch against OFED git tree ehca_branch and

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH] opensm: libibmad: rpc API which supports more than one ports.

2006-08-30 Thread Sasha Khapyorsky
On 12:13 Wed 30 Aug , Hal Rosenstock wrote: Hi Sasha, On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 21:29, Sasha Khapyorsky wrote: Hi Hal, On 20:09 Tue 29 Aug , Hal Rosenstock wrote: Hi Sasha, On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 09:17, Sasha Khapyorsky wrote: This provides RPC like API which may work

[openib-general] [PATCH][TRIVIAL] libibmad/src/rpc.c: Validate num_classes

2006-08-30 Thread Hal Rosenstock
libibmad/src/rpc.c: Validate num_classes Signed-off-by: Hal Rosenstock [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: libibmad/src/rpc.c === --- libibmad/src/rpc.c (revision 9192) +++ libibmad/src/rpc.c (working copy) @@ -306,6 +306,9 @@

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH ] RFC IB/cm do not track remote QPN in timewait state

2006-08-30 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoting r. Sean Hefty [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Subject: Re: [PATCH ] RFC IB/cm do not track remote QPN in timewait state Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: And so can RTU, in which case again QP will be in RTR. So it seems lost CM packets aren't protected by timewait. Maybe we just try to deal with

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH 02/13] IB/ehca: includes

2006-08-30 Thread Hoang-Nam Nguyen
Hi, There are a few places in the driver where you declare external variables (mostly ehca_module and ehca_debug_level) from C files instead of a header. This sometimes leads to bugs when a type changes and is therefore considered bad style. Good point. See patch attached below. Moreover,

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH ] RFC IB/cm do not track remote QPN in timewait state

2006-08-30 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoting r. Michael S. Tsirkin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Subject: Re: [PATCH ] RFC IB/cm do not track remote QPN in timewait state Quoting r. Sean Hefty [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Subject: Re: [PATCH ] RFC IB/cm do not track remote QPN in timewait state Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: And so can RTU, in

[openib-general] File transfer performance options

2006-08-30 Thread Paul Baxter
We've been testing an application that archives large quantities of data from a Linux system onto a Windows-based server (64bit server 2003 R2). As part of the investigation into relatively modest transfer speeds in the win-linux configuration, we configured a Linux-Linux transfer via IpoIB

Re: [openib-general] CMA oops

2006-08-30 Thread Sean Hefty
Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: Apparently, list-prev pointer in CMA id_priv structure is NULL which causes a crash in list_del. I note that rdma_destroy_id tests outside the mutex lock. Could that be the problem? The problem is not unfortunately easily reproducible. I think I see one bug, but

Re: [openib-general] [Openib-windows] File transfer performance options

2006-08-30 Thread Fabian Tillier
Hi Paul, On 8/30/06, Paul Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any other inter-operable windows-linux solutions now? (cross-platform NFS over RDMA or SRP initiator/target?) There is an SRP initiator for Windows, but not a target. There is a Linux SRP target reference implementation, but

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH v5 1/2] iWARP Connection Manager.

2006-08-30 Thread Tom Tucker
On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 10:35 -0700, Roland Dreier wrote: OK, getting closer to finishing the merge... anyway, why is iw_cm_private.h in include/rdma where it is visible everywhere? As far as I can tell drivers/infiniband/core/iwcm.c is the only place it's included. So why not just put this

Re: [openib-general] File transfer performance options

2006-08-30 Thread Cain, Brian (GE Healthcare)
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Baxter Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 2:13 PM To: openib-general@openib.org Cc: openib-windows@openib.org Subject: [openib-general] File transfer performance options We've been testing an

Re: [openib-general] CMA oops

2006-08-30 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoting r. Sean Hefty [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Subject: Re: [openib-general] CMA oops Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: Apparently, list-prev pointer in CMA id_priv structure is NULL which causes a crash in list_del. I note that rdma_destroy_id tests outside the mutex lock. Could that be the

Re: [openib-general] CMA oops

2006-08-30 Thread Sean Hefty
Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: I'm trying to come up with a fix for this, but I'm not convinced it's the problem that you're seeing. Could be what you describe leads to a memory corruption. I believe so. If this were the cause of the crash, I would expect to see an issue with list-prev-prev or

Re: [openib-general] File transfer performance options

2006-08-30 Thread Tom Tucker
Are you familiar with NFSoRDMA? We get 600+MB/s on read and about 150-200MB/s on write with an XFS filesystem on a stripped software raid with four spindles. This is Linux -- Linux. On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 20:13 +0100, Paul Baxter wrote: We've been testing an application that archives large

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH v5 2/2] iWARP Core Changes.

2006-08-30 Thread Roland Dreier
While merging this, I uninlined rdma_node_get_transport, since I don't think there's any reason to make it inline: add/remove: 1/0 grow/shrink: 7/16 up/down: 65/-146 (-81) function old new delta rdma_node_get_transport- 33

Re: [openib-general] File transfer performance options

2006-08-30 Thread Roland Dreier
Are you familiar with NFSoRDMA? We get 600+MB/s on read and about 150-200MB/s on write with an XFS filesystem on a stripped software raid with four spindles. umm: [Whilst for a real Linux-Linux configuration I would look for the RDMA over NFS solution, this wouldn't translate

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH ] RFC IB/cm do not track remote QPN in timewait state

2006-08-30 Thread Sean Hefty
Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: It exposed a race in SDP. The patch itself does not lead to crashes - I re-attach it here for reference. As we discussed, this needs to be extended to handle DREQ retries properly. I've committed this patch to SVN 9193. The CM should already handle DREQ retries

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH v5 2/2] iWARP Core Changes.

2006-08-30 Thread Sean Hefty
Roland Dreier wrote: While merging this, I uninlined rdma_node_get_transport, since I don't think there's any reason to make it inline: I've committed the patch to svn to sync as well. - Sean ___ openib-general mailing list openib-general@openib.org

Re: [openib-general] Interrupt Threshold Rate equivalent in Infiniband NIC

2006-08-30 Thread Aaron Fabbri
Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com writes: harish Hi, The interruptThresholdRate module parameter allows you harish to control the maximum number of interrupts/sec for an harish e1000 Intel NIC for example. Is there an equivalent harish parameter for Infiniband NICs. I am

[openib-general] Announcing the release of MVAPICH2 0.9.5 with SRQ, integrated multi-rail and TotalView support

2006-08-30 Thread Dhabaleswar Panda
The MVAPICH team is pleased to announce the availability of MVAPICH2 0.9.5 with the following NEW features: - Shared Receive Queue (SRQ) and Adaptive RDMA support: These features reduce memory usage of the MPI library significantly to provide scalability without any degradation in