Infiniband under FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT...

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On 01/07/15 00:22, Karl Pielorz wrote:
>
> --On 6 January 2015 07:48:28 +0100 Hans Petter Selasky <hps at selasky.org>
> wrote:
>
>> 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
>
> If I run the above sysctl on my system, I get:
>
> sys.device.mlx4_core0.mlx4_port1: eth
> sys.device.mlx4_core0.mlx4_port2: eth
>
> A lot seems to have changed infiniband wise from FBSD 10 to 11 - is
> there any updated 'getting started' guide or notes or anything?
>
> Is it still the same thing of installing the cards (everything seems to
> be compiled up already OFED / ibstat / opensm way) and running up opensm?
>
> -Karl
>

Hi,

 From what I know everything should work like ususal. In between you 
maybe want to grab this patch aswell, hence it plugs a file descriptor 
memory leak related to infiniband:

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/276749

--HPS