Supported NICs
Jason Bacon
bacon at uwm.edu
Mon Oct 14 18:38:04 UTC 2013
Some initial test results...
I installed an old Infinihost DDR HCA in one of our compute nodes
running FreeBSD 9.1.
RHEL nodes are using qlogic IB HCAs.
10.1.1 is gigabit Ethernet, 10.1.2 is IB.
Running iperf server on FreeBSD and client on one of our RHEL nodes
shows OK performance:
bacon at infinibsd:/home/bacon % iperf -s
------------------------------------------------------------
Server listening on TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 64.0 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[ 4] local 10.1.1.140 port 5001 connected with 10.1.1.39 port 35947
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 4] 0.0-10.0 sec 1.10 GBytes 947 Mbits/sec
[ 5] local 10.1.2.140 port 5001 connected with 10.1.2.39 port 60090
[ 5] 0.0-10.0 sec 7.20 GBytes 6.18 Gbits/sec
RHEL to RHEL gives us about 8 Gbits/sec.
Iperf server on RHEL and client on FreeBSD shows very poor performance
for IB, while GigE is fine:
bacon at infinibsd:/home/bacon % iperf -c 10.1.1.39
------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to 10.1.1.39, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 32.8 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[ 3] local 10.1.1.140 port 60066 connected with 10.1.1.39 port 5001
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 1.10 GBytes 943 Mbits/sec
bacon at infinibsd:/home/bacon % iperf -c 10.1.2.39
------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to 10.1.2.39, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 32.0 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[ 3] local 10.1.2.140 port 14608 connected with 10.1.2.39 port 5001
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 3] 0.0-32.7 sec 768 KBytes 192 Kbits/sec
Any ideas what might cause this?
I'm going to install 9.2-RELEASE and retest in any case, plus explore
the ib config tools, but any feedback in the meantime would be appreciated.
Thanks,
JB
On 10/07/13 01:51, Oded Shanoon wrote:
> Hi Jason,
>
> IB support in 9.2 is supposed to be stable enough.
> Please note that Mellanox started supporting FreeBSD only recently. The driver in 9.2 was ported by someone from Isilon (Jeff Roberson) from OFA-1.5.3.
> Since we started our involvement we entered some fixes to that driver (that were submitted into 9.2).
> We also mapped various issues which needs to be fixed in the future.
> We are now working on a major "face lift" to the driver - making it much more stable and with improved performance and features.
>
> Regards,
>
> Oded Shanoon
> OFED-FreeBSD Team Leader
> Mellanox Technologies, Raanana
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-infiniband at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-infiniband at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Jason Bacon
> Sent: Monday, September 16, 2013 4:32 PM
> To: Anthony Cornehl
> Cc: freebsd-infiniband at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Supported NICs
>
>
> Thanks Anthony& Oded!
>
> Would you say that IB support in 9.2 is stable enough for a production HPC file server?
>
> Will do plenty of my own testing first, of course.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jason
>
> On 09/15/13 22:38, Anthony Cornehl wrote:
>>
>> On Sep 15, 2013 8:17 PM, "Anthony Cornehl"<accornehl at gmail.com
>> <mailto:accornehl at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sep 15, 2013 1:20 PM, "Jason bacon"<jwbacon at tds.net
>> <mailto:jwbacon at tds.net>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Is there a list of supported IB NICs out there somewhere?
>>>>
>>>> I followed the wiki instructions for rebuilding with IB support
>> and now have mlx4ib, mlxen, etc.
>>>> Was hoping there would be man pages for the drivers that list
>> known working cards, but there don't seem to be. I'm hoping to test a
>> file server using IPOIB and possible roll a FreeNAS ISO with IB
>> support if it works out.
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>> Jason W. Bacon
>>>> jwbacon at tds.net<mailto:jwbacon at tds.net>
>>>>
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>>>> They reveal him.
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>>> Hey Jason,
>>>
>>> Mellanox ConnectX series cards are the only ones supported currently...
>>>
>>> http://www.mellanox.com/page/infiniband_cards_overview
>>>
>>> Don't forget to compile with IPoIB as well, since the IPoIB support
>> is compiled into the driver, unlike in Linux.
>>> Just be aware that IPoIB performance is also improved by enabling
>> connected mode when you compile the kernel module. The IB code in
>> FreeBSD is a few years older the what is in Linux, but, the following
>> forum thread is probably relevant...
>>>
>> http://forums.servethehome.com/networking/1554-infiniband-ipoib-perfor
>> mance-problems.html
>>> Cheers!
>> It also appears that Jeff fixed SDP a few weeks ago, which is more
>> capable of reaching line-speed for IB-connected devices.
>>
>> http://pkg-ofed.alioth.debian.org/howto/infiniband-howto-7.html
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>
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>
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Systems Programmer
Research Computing Support
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
bacon at uwm.edu
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