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Re: [openib-general] Timeline of IPoIB performance

2005-10-07 Thread Matt Leininger
I'm adding netdev to this thread to see if they can help. I'm seeing an IPoIB (IP over InfiniBand) netperf performance drop off, of up to 90 MB/s, when using kernels newer than 2.6.11. This doesn't appear to be an OpenIB IPoIB issue since the older in-kernel IB for 2.6.11 and a recent svn3687 sna

Re: [openib-general] Timeline of IPoIB performance

2005-10-07 Thread Matt Leininger
On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 18:16 -0700, Roland Dreier wrote: > I wonder if this BIC bug has anything to do with it: > http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/10/7/230 > I'm not sure this helps. I'm seeing the performance drop of happen between 2.6.12-rc4 (470 MB/s) and 2.6.12-rc5 (405 MB/s). I'll send out my

Re: [openib-general] IBM eHCA testing..

2005-10-07 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 09:33:27AM -0700, Shirley Ma wrote: > Hi, Troy, > > There is INSTALL file in the EHCA driver package. > In OpenPower 720 port 1 is at the top, port 2 is at the bottom. > In P570, port1 is at the bottom, port2 is at the top. Okay, I guess I should read more carefully ;) Wh

Re: [openib-general] Timeline of IPoIB performance

2005-10-07 Thread Roland Dreier
I wonder if this BIC bug has anything to do with it: http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/10/7/230 ___ openib-general mailing list openib-general@openib.org http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/li

Re: [openib-general] [RFC] IB address translation using ARP

2005-10-07 Thread Hal Rosenstock
On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 19:57, Sean Hefty wrote: > Hal Rosenstock wrote: > > Would an iWARP connection jump across IP subnets ? It would need to > > determine that it could do this (ala NHRP with ATM). Also, could there > > be other RDMA networks between them (like IB) ? > > if iWarp is on top of TC

Re: [openib-general] [RFC] IB address translation using ARP

2005-10-07 Thread Sean Hefty
Hal Rosenstock wrote: Would an iWARP connection jump across IP subnets ? It would need to determine that it could do this (ala NHRP with ATM). Also, could there be other RDMA networks between them (like IB) ? if iWarp is on top of TCP, I don't think that it would care about IP subnets. - Sean

Re: [openib-general] [RFC] IB address translation using ARP

2005-10-07 Thread Hal Rosenstock
On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 17:30, Sean Hefty wrote: > Hal Rosenstock wrote: > >> If the RDMA CM ran a protocol that ensured that data sent from the source > >> reached the actual destination, then this would make more sense to me. But > >> the protocol is coming from the client. > > > > Wouldn't the g

Re: [openib-general] [RFC] IB address translation using ARP

2005-10-07 Thread Sean Hefty
Hal Rosenstock wrote: If the RDMA CM ran a protocol that ensured that data sent from the source reached the actual destination, then this would make more sense to me. But the protocol is coming from the client. Wouldn't the gateway/host reject or drop the connection if it couldn't do what was

Re: [openib-general] [RFC] IB address translation using ARP

2005-10-07 Thread Hal Rosenstock
On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 17:02, Sean Hefty wrote: > Hal Rosenstock wrote: > >>IP is connectionless, so I'm not sure how to relate from IP to the RDMA CM. > > > > > > IP is connectionless but has been implemented on top of connection > > oriented link layers which may gateway to other connection ori

Re: [openib-general] [RFC] IB address translation using ARP

2005-10-07 Thread Sean Hefty
Hal Rosenstock wrote: IP is connectionless, so I'm not sure how to relate from IP to the RDMA CM. IP is connectionless but has been implemented on top of connection oriented link layers which may gateway to other connection oriented link layers or non connection oriented link layers. I think i

Re: [openib-general] [RFC] IB address translation using ARP

2005-10-07 Thread Hal Rosenstock
On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 16:10, Sean Hefty wrote: > Yaron Haviv wrote: > > Sean, I believe this is exactly how it is been proposed > > The gateway is the endpoint in IB, and the IB CM request is done against > > the gateway, the gateway may decide to create its own connection on the > > Yes - I agree

[openib-general] Re: Questions about mad_test

2005-10-07 Thread Hal Rosenstock
Hi Pradeep, On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 15:19, Pradeep Satyanarayana wrote: > I am hoping some one will be able to help me out with a few answers > saving me some debug time, or having to expend effort on something > that is already known. > I was trying to execute mad_test and found that it errors out.

Re: [openib-general] [RFC] IB address translation using ARP

2005-10-07 Thread Sean Hefty
Yaron Haviv wrote: Sean, I believe this is exactly how it is been proposed The gateway is the endpoint in IB, and the IB CM request is done against the gateway, the gateway may decide to create its own connection on the Yes - I agree with that. I'm referring to the RDMA connection manager, ver

RE: [openib-general] [RFC] IB address translation using ARP

2005-10-07 Thread Yaron Haviv
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:openib-general- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sean Hefty > Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 12:40 PM > To: 'Michael Krause'; Caitlin Bestler > Cc: Openib > Subject: RE: [openib-general] [RFC] IB address translation using ARP > > >It w

RE: [openib-general] [RFC] IB address translation using ARP

2005-10-07 Thread Yaron Haviv
> > From: Michael Krause [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 12:29 PM > To: Yaron Haviv > Cc: Openib > Subject: RE: [openib-general] [RFC] IB address translation using ARP > > At 06:24 AM 9/30/2005, Yaron Haviv wrote: > > > -Orig

[openib-general] [PATCH] [CMA] RDMA CM abstraction module

2005-10-07 Thread Sean Hefty
The following patch adds in a basic RDMA connection management abstraction. It is functional, but needs additional work for handling device removal, plus several missing features. I'd like to merge this back into the trunk, and continue working on it from there. This depends on the ib_addr module

[openib-general] Questions about mad_test

2005-10-07 Thread Pradeep Satyanarayana
I am hoping some one will be able to help me out with a few answers saving me some debug time, or having to expend effort on something that is already known. I was trying to execute mad_test and found that it errors out. For some reason it does not like the DR Path that I gave it. 1. I ran ibnetd

[openib-general] [PATCH] [ADDR] address translation module for CMA

2005-10-07 Thread Sean Hefty
The following patch adds a simple IP to IB address translation module using ARP. It is based off AT and SDP, but kept as simple as possible. I would like to merge this back into the trunk, and apply other changes there. Signed-off-by: Sean Hefty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: include/rdma/ib_addr.

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH] udapl: PPC64 cpuinfo change

2005-10-07 Thread Grant Grundler
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 11:01:21PM -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: > Oh boy is there some reason 'gettimeofday' does not work? In general, it doesn't work as well. > Trying to infer timebase/clock/rtsc frequency is going to be a mess. Using cycle counters is quite portable today and provides

RE: [openib-general] [RFC] IB address translation using ARP

2005-10-07 Thread Sean Hefty
>It would be best to define a CM architecture that enabled communication >between like endpoints and avoid the gateway dilemma. Let the gateway >provider work out such issues as there are many requirements already >on each side of these interconnects. I've given this some more thought since the o

Re: [openib-general] IBM eHCA testing..

2005-10-07 Thread Shirley Ma
Hi, Troy, There is INSTALL file in the EHCA driver package. In OpenPower 720 port 1 is at the top, port 2 is at the bottom. In P570, port1 is at the bottom, port2 is at the top. Thanks Shirley Ma IBM Linux Technology Center 15300 SW Koll Parkway Beaverton, OR 97006-6063 Phone(Fax): (503) 578-763

RE: [openib-general] [RFC] IB address translation using ARP

2005-10-07 Thread Michael Krause
At 06:24 AM 9/30/2005, Yaron Haviv wrote: > -Original Message- > From: Roland Dreier [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 9:50 PM > To: Sean Hefty > Cc: Yaron Haviv; Openib > Subject: Re: [openib-general] [RFC] IB address translation using ARP > > I think the

RE: [openib-general] [RFC] IB address translation using ARP

2005-10-07 Thread Michael Krause
At 06:38 AM 9/30/2005, Caitlin Bestler wrote:   > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Roland Dreier > Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 6:50 PM > To: Sean Hefty > Cc: Openib > Subject: Re: [openib-general] [RFC] IB address translation

Re: [openib-general] IBM eHCA testing..

2005-10-07 Thread Pradeep Satyanarayana
I believe the lower port is port 1. I will defer to the EHCA team as regards to issues with 2.6.13 (if any). We have minimally used both ports on p570. So, my guess is that should work on a Openpower720. Pradeep [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 10/07/2005 07:12:07 AM: > I have two I

Re: [openib-general] Timeline of IPoIB performance

2005-10-07 Thread Roland Dreier
Hmm, looks like something in the network stack must have changed. > 2.6.12 in-kernel1 406 > 2.6.11 in-kernel1 464 This looks like the biggest dropoff. I can think of two things that would be interesting to do if you or anyone else has time. First, tak

Re: [openib-general] Timeline of IPoIB performance

2005-10-07 Thread Parks Fields
Matt, I have seen the same thing. I just didn't relate it to the Kernel. My IPoIB performance is down to ~340MB/sec with 2.6.12.1 and svn 3040. With 2.6.13 and svn 3490 the peak is 402MB/sec. At 02:06 AM 10/7/2005, Matt Leininger wrote: I'm seeing an IPoIB netperf performance drop off

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Re: [openib-general] Latest build test results

2005-10-07 Thread Nishanth Aravamudan
On 07.10.2005 [09:48:56 -0400], Hal Rosenstock wrote: > On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 15:26, Hal Rosenstock wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 15:20, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > > > On 06.10.2005 [13:25:35 -0400], Hal Rosenstock wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 13:11, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > > > >

[openib-general] IBM eHCA testing..

2005-10-07 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
I have two IBM eHCA cards installed and it appears that OpenSM is happily talking to the firmware and bringing up the links. So now I'm looking at the install instructions for the ehca2_EHCA2_0025.tgz code drop, and wondering what (if any) issues there are with a 2.6.13 kernel, or later OpenIB svn

Re: [openib-general] Latest build test results

2005-10-07 Thread Hal Rosenstock
On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 15:26, Hal Rosenstock wrote: > On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 15:20, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > > On 06.10.2005 [13:25:35 -0400], Hal Rosenstock wrote: > > > On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 13:11, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > > > > On 06.10.2005 [19:40:40 +0300], Dan Bar Dov wrote: > > > > > I

Re: [openib-general] Latest build test results

2005-10-07 Thread Nishanth Aravamudan
On 07.10.2005 [08:21:19 -0400], Hal Rosenstock wrote: > On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 14:11, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > > On 06.10.2005 [13:25:35 -0400], Hal Rosenstock wrote: > > > On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 13:11, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > > > > On 06.10.2005 [19:40:40 +0300], Dan Bar Dov wrote: > > > >

Re: [openib-general] Timeline of IPoIB performance

2005-10-07 Thread Hal Rosenstock
Hi Matt, On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 04:06, Matt Leininger wrote: > I'm seeing an IPoIB netperf performance drop off, up to 90 MB/s, when > using kernels newer than 2.6.11. This doesn't appear to be an OpenIB > IPoIB issue since the in-kernel and a recent svn3687 snapshot both have > the same performan

Re: [openib-general] Latest build test results

2005-10-07 Thread Hal Rosenstock
On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 14:11, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > On 06.10.2005 [13:25:35 -0400], Hal Rosenstock wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 13:11, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > > > On 06.10.2005 [19:40:40 +0300], Dan Bar Dov wrote: > > > > I've fixed the 2.6.14-rc3 compilation warnings with iSER on x8

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[openib-general] Timeline of IPoIB performance

2005-10-07 Thread Matt Leininger
I'm seeing an IPoIB netperf performance drop off, up to 90 MB/s, when using kernels newer than 2.6.11. This doesn't appear to be an OpenIB IPoIB issue since the in-kernel and a recent svn3687 snapshot both have the same performance (464 MB/s) with 2.6.11. I used the same kernel config file as a s

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