Infiniband MTU Issue
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Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 02:30:52 UTC
Mistakenly sent this to net@ before I noticed there was a FreeBSD Infiniband list.
Machine is FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p5.
The problem we are seeing is our IB MTU is getting set to 2044. It is not getting the
MTU setting from the subnet manager like our Linux nodes. It should be getting set to
4092.
ib0: flags=1008043<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,LOWER_UP> metric 0 mtu 2044
options=8009b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,LINKSTATE>
lladdr 0.0.0.7a.fe.80.0.0.0.0.0.0.10.70.fd.3.0.e5.c6.c8
inet 10.149.200.68 netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast 10.149.255.255
nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
We vaguely remember an obscure Solaris setting to turn "something" off that solved the
issue but can't find anything for FreeBSD and the Solaris cluster nodes are a decade
gone at least.
Any suggestions? The FreeBSD documentation on Infiniband seems scarce. The NVidia
docs don't mention MTU since I'm guessing they assume it is magically set. None of
the Linux tuning seems to apply to FreeBSD.
Thanks!
-Tom
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