Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?

[John Baldwin]

On Monday, July 02, 2012 1:23:29 pm Gergely CZUCZY wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 10:55:04 -0400
> John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Friday, June 29, 2012 5:50:05 am Gergely CZUCZY wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > I'm mostly using freebsd, but there are a few cases where it's
> > > impossible to do, and because of these, i'm not using fbsd there.
> > > 
> > > These reasons are mostly are:
> > >  - Lack of a working infiniband/OFED stack, with all its utils,
> > >    mellanox connectX3 drivers, RDMA, iscsi-over-RDMA, nfs-over-RDMA,
> > >    and such things.
> > 
> > FYI, OFED is present in 9.0 and later including mellanox drivers.
> > RDMA should be present, but I've no idea about iscsi-over-RDMA or
> > nfs-over-RDMA.
> 
> Agreed, it's present. However, it's not in a functional state. Half of
> the toolkit is missing, and we couldn't get out of the system any
> better than icmp responses. any other means of communication failed to
> work. Yup, present, but not functional :)

Hmm, in my local testing we've been able to use the 40G mlxen(4) adapters
fine with the OFED stack.  I believe we have also done a bit more involved
testing on the IB side than just ping as well (at least RX and TX of UDP 
packets).

-- 
John Baldwin