Questions about Infiniband on FreeBSD

Mikhail T. mi+t at aldan.algebra.com
Tue Oct 8 05:13:05 UTC 2019


On 03.10.19 03:18, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> On 2019-10-03 02:49, Jason Bacon wrote:
>> I saw frequent hangs (self-resolving) with an MTU of 65520.  Cutting 
>> it in half improved reliability by orders of magnitude, but still 
>> occasional issues.  Halving it again to 16380 seemed to be the sweet 
>> spot.
>
> Try this fix:
>
> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/352955 

Well, I waited for these to hit the 11-stable and rebuilt both kernels. 
Unfortunately, I cannot tell they help very much. With MTU of 65K I 
still see hangups in NFS and other data-transfers.

Setting MTU to 16K seems Ok. Yours,

    -mi



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