Hi Josh, interesting. However, I am not using XEN on that machine at all and I don't have the XEN kernel installed. Thus, that is not the problem.
All the best from a sunny London Jörg On Sonntag 28 April 2013 Josh Catana wrote: > I noticed on systems running xen-kernel netback driver for virtualization, > bandwidth drops to very low rates. > > On Apr 27, 2013 6:19 PM, "Brice Goglin" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > These cards are QDR and even FDR, you should get 56Gbit/s (we see about > > 50Gbit/s in benchmarks iirc). That what I get on sandy-bridge servers > > with the exact same IB card model. > > > > $ ibv_devinfo -v > > [...] > > > > active_width: 4X (2) > > active_speed: 14.0 Gbps (16) > > > > These nodes have been running Debian testing/wheezy (default kernel and > > IB packages) for 9 months without problems. > > > > I had to fix the cables to get 56Gbit/s link state. Without Mellanox FDR > > cables, I was only getting 40. So maybe check your cables. And if you're > > not 100% sure about your switch, try connecting the nodes back-to-back. > > > > You can try upgrading the IB card firmware too. Mine is 2.10.700 (likely > > not uptodate anymore, but at least this one works fine). > > > > Where does your "8.5Gbit/s" come from? IB status or benchmarks? If > > benchmarks, it could be related to the PCIe link speed. Upgrading the > > BIOS and IB firmware help me too (some reboot gave PCIe Gen1 instead of > > Gen3). Here's what you should see in lspci if you get PCIe Gen3 8x as > > expected: > > > > $ sudo lspci -d 15b3: -vv > > [...] > > > > LnkSta: Speed 8GT/s, Width x8 > > > > Brice > > > > Le 27/04/2013 22:05, Jörg Saßmannshausen a écrit : > > > Dear all, > > > > > > I was wondering whether somebody has/had similar problems as I have. > > > > > > We have recenctly purchased a bunch of new nodes. These are Sandybridge > > > > ones > > > > > with Mellanox ConnectX-3 MT27500 InfiniBand connectors and this is > > > where > > > > I got > > > > > problems with. > > > > > > I am usually using Debian Squeeze for my clusters (kernel > > > > 2.6.32-5-amd64). > > > > > Unfortunately, as it turned out I cannot use that kernel as my Intel > > > NIC > > > > is > > > > > not supported here. So I upgraded to 3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 (backport > > > > kernel to > > > > > sqeeze). Here I got network but the InfiniBand is not working. The > > > > device is > > > > > not even recognized by ibstatus. Thus, I decided to do an upgrade (not > > > > dist- > > > > > upgrade) to wheezy to get the newer OFED stack. > > > > > > Here I get the InfiniBand working but only with 8.5 Gb/sec. A simple > > > > reseating > > > > > of the plug increases that to 20 Gb/sec (4X DDR), which is still slower > > > > than > > > > > the speed of the older nodes (40 Gb/sec (4X QDR)). > > > > > > So I upgraded completely to wheezy (dist-upgrade now) but the problem > > > > does not > > > > > vanish. > > > I re-installed squeeze again and installed a vanilla kernel (3.8.8) and > > > > the > > > > > latest OFED stack from their site. And guess what: same experiences > > > here: After a reboot the IfniniBand speed is 8.5 and reseating the > > > plug > > > > increases > > > > > that to 20 Gb/sec. It does not matter whether I connect to the edge > > > > switch or > > > > > to the main switch, in both cases I got the same > > > > experiences/observations. > > > > > Frankly, I am out of ideas now. I don't think the observed speed change > > > > after > > > > > reseating the plug should happen. I am in touch with the technical > > > > support > > > > > here as well but I think we both are a bit confused. > > > > > > Now, am I right to assume that the Mellanox ConnectX-3 MT27500 are QDR > > > > cards > > > > > so I should get 40 Gb/sec and not 20 Gb/sec? > > > > > > Has anybody made similar experiences? Any ideas? > > > > > > All the best from London > > > > > > Jörg > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing > > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf -- ************************************************************* Jörg Saßmannshausen University College London Department of Chemistry Gordon Street London WC1H 0AJ email: [email protected] web: http://sassy.formativ.net Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
