Supported NICs

[Jason Bacon]

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:
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>
> 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,
> > >
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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-performance-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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   Jason W. Bacon
   jwbacon at tds.net

   Circumstances don't make a man:
   They reveal him.
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