Infiniband under FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT...

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On 01/06/15 00:12, Karl Pielorz wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I just built a couple of 11.0-CURRENT r275655M amd64 boxes up, both with:
>
> "
> MT25418 [ConnectX VPI PCIe 2.0 2.5GT/s - IB DDR / 10GigE]
> "
>
> Cards in that appear after boot as 'mlxen0' and 'mlxen1' (they're dual
> port cards).
>
> I'd previously run these cards with FreeBSD 10.0. I noticed the
> Infiniband options seem to be in GENERIC now, and opensm/ibstat appears
> to be in base.
>
> But neither work, i.e.
>
> "
> #ibstat
> ibpanic: [1343] main: stat of IB device 'mthca0' failed: (m)
> "
>
> And,
>
> "
> #opensm
> ...
> No local ports detected!
>
> Error from osm_opensm_bind (0x2A)
> Perhaps another instance of OpenSM is already running
> Exiting SM
> "
>
>
> Things have obviously changed since 10.0 (and I realise this is work in
> progress) - is there a setup guide or anywhere I can lookup how to get
> this working? [presuming it does work :)]
>

Hi,

Did you set the following sysctl(s) to specify the port mode:

sysctl -a | grep eth

sys.device.mlx4_core0.mlx4_port1: eth
sys.device.mlx4_core0.mlx4_port2: eth
sys.device.mlx4_core1.mlx4_port1: eth
sys.device.mlx4_core1.mlx4_port2: eth

--HPS