Hi Troy,

Tim and I would like to discuss this with you as well. One thing I would ask, are you using the btl_mvapi_leave_pinned=1 option? otherwise it is not a apples to apples comparison.

- Galen
On Aug 24, 2005, at 8:21 PM, Troy Benjegerdes wrote:

I have some Netpipe graphs of OpenMPI and Mviapich on OpenIB gen2 on
Opteron systems, one with PCI-X IB cards, and the other with PCI- Express
DDR IB cards.

I'd like to chat with someone who fill me in a bit on what's going on
with performance, and how the BTL for IB is implemented. One thing I'd
like to try is modifying the kernel to allow 95% of physical memory to
be registered for IB, and see how much of a difference this makes.

I am also toying with the idea of writing an OpenIB BTL module for
Netpipe, so I can evaluate the BTL layer performance directly without
any MPI overhead.

I also get the following messages on startup:

libibverbs: Warning: no userspace device-specific driver found for
uverbs0 driver search path: /usr/lib/infiniband
    [0,1,1][btl_openib_component.c:267:mca_btl_openib_component_init]
    No hca's found on this host!

Something strange is going on, because it is finding at least 1 IB
port, given the performance numbers.

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