Re: [openib-general] [PATCH 3/3] librdmacm: add ability to get/set transport specific options

2006-05-09 Thread Jack Morgenstein
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 19:25, Sean Hefty wrote: > > This is fine for route lookup, but not rdma_get_option. > I missed adding rdma_ib.c to my tag file, so missed the rdma_get_option usage of local_sa.c -- sorry about that. My preference is to take the most recent rdma_cm, since there are several

[openib-general] Re: [PATCH] RE: compliancy issue?

2006-05-09 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoting r. Michael S. Tsirkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Subject: Re: [PATCH] RE: compliancy issue? > > Quoting r. Sean Hefty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Subject: [PATCH] RE: compliancy issue? > > > > >CA4-24.2.3: The connecting peer shall terminate the connection attempt > > >if ExtMaxAdverts of the HA

Re: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH 07/16] ehca: interrupt handling routines

2006-05-09 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoting r. Shirley Ma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Subject: Re: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH 07/16] ehca: interrupt > handling?routines > > > "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05/09/2006 01:20:41 PM: > > > Quoting r. Shirley Ma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > My understanding is NAPI handle

[openib-general] Re: [PATCH] RE: compliancy issue?

2006-05-09 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoting r. Sean Hefty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Subject: [PATCH] RE: compliancy issue? > > >CA4-24.2.3: The connecting peer shall terminate the connection attempt > >if ExtMaxAdverts of the HAH is set to zero. > > > >This means that SDP must examine the HAH before RTU is sent. > >But, CMA currently s

Re: [openib-general] rdma_cm.h: comment nits.

2006-05-09 Thread Tom Tucker
On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 16:58 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > Two nits wrt rdma_cm.h: > > /** > * * rdma_reject - Called on the passive side to reject a connection request. > */ > > > Its OK to call rdma_reject on active side as well, isn't it? You'll get -EINVAL on iWARP if you do this

Re: [openib-general] ip over ib throughtput

2006-05-09 Thread Shirley Ma
"Talpey, Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05/09/2006 06:58:09 PM: > Of course, the NFS/RDMA copies do not need to compute the checksum, > so they are more efficient than the socket atop IPoIB. But I am not > sure that the payload per WQE is important. We are nowhere near the > op rate of the

[openib-general] [Bug 68] OFED 1.0 rc4: kernel build failed in IB core on SUSE10

2006-05-09 Thread bugzilla-daemon
http://openib.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=68 [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What|Removed |Added Severity|normal |critical --- Additional Comments Fro

Re: [openib-general] ip over ib throughtput

2006-05-09 Thread Talpey, Thomas
At 05:47 PM 5/9/2006, Shirley Ma wrote: >Thanks for sharing these test results. > >The netperf/netserver IPoIB over UD mode test spent most of time on copying >data from user to kernel + checksum(csum_partial_copy_generic), and it only >can send no more than mtu=2044 ib_post_send() per wiki, wh

[openib-general] Pathscale HCA can benefit using 2k MTU

2006-05-09 Thread Ralph Campbell
There is no need to limit the MTU to 1K on Pathscale HCAs. This patch fixes the problem. Signed-off-by: Ralph Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: src/userspace/mpi/mvapich-gen2/mpid/ch_gen2/ibverbs_const.h === --- src/userspace/mpi/m

[openib-general] [Bug 78] New: OFED 1.0 RC 4 iser install fails if patches already applied

2006-05-09 Thread bugzilla-daemon
http://openib.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=78 Summary: OFED 1.0 RC 4 iser install fails if patches already applied Product: OpenFabrics Linux Version: gen2 Platform: All OS/Version: All Status: NEW Severit

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH 07/16] ehca: interrupt handling routines

2006-05-09 Thread Segher Boessenkool
Heiko> Yes, I agree. It would not be an optimal solution, because Heiko> other upper level protocols (e.g. SDP, SRP, etc.) or Heiko> userspace verbs would not be affected by this Heiko> changes. Nevertheless, how can an improved "scaling" or Heiko> "SMP" version of IPoIB look l

RE: [openib-general] svn 6829 version issue with rdma_ucm and userspace?

2006-05-09 Thread Bob Woodruff
Ira wrote, ># odev1 /root > simple_rdma -S >librdmacm: kernel ABI version 0 doesn't match library version 1. >Failed to create rdma_cm_id Sean is correct, the backport puts the abi_version in a different place to be consistent with how the other kernel modules do it. Try appying this patch to your

Re: [openib-general] svn 6829 version issue with rdma_ucm and userspace?

2006-05-09 Thread Ira Weiny
Sean, Thanks that helped. Changing the /sys/class/misc/rdma_cm/abi_version to /sys/class/infiniband_ucma/abi_version in the user lib fixed the problem. I wonder though if this is the correct solution? Ira On Tue, 09 May 2006 15:39:39 -0700 Sean Hefty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ira Weiny wr

Re: [openib-general] svn 6829 version issue with rdma_ucm and userspace?

2006-05-09 Thread Sean Hefty
Ira Weiny wrote: I have been struggling with getting svn6829 to work and this is one of the latest issues. # odev1 /root > simple_rdma -S librdmacm: kernel ABI version 0 doesn't match library version 1. Failed to create rdma_cm_id This is a little rdma app I wrote which uses the rdma_cm userspa

[openib-general] svn 6829 version issue with rdma_ucm and userspace?

2006-05-09 Thread Ira Weiny
I have been struggling with getting svn6829 to work and this is one of the latest issues. # odev1 /root > simple_rdma -S librdmacm: kernel ABI version 0 doesn't match library version 1. Failed to create rdma_cm_id This is a little rdma app I wrote which uses the rdma_cm userspace lib. The code w

[openib-general] [PATCH] RE: compliancy issue?

2006-05-09 Thread Sean Hefty
>CA4-24.2.3: The connecting peer shall terminate the connection attempt >if ExtMaxAdverts of the HAH is set to zero. > >This means that SDP must examine the HAH before RTU is sent. >But, CMA currently sends RTU from cma_rep_recv, before notifying >the user. Can you try this simple patch and see if

Re: [openib-general] ip over ib throughtput

2006-05-09 Thread Shirley Ma
Thanks for sharing these test results. The netperf/netserver IPoIB over UD mode test spent most of time on copying data from user to kernel + checksum(csum_partial_copy_generic), and it only can send no more than mtu=2044 ib_post_send() per wiki, which definitely limits its performance compared

Re: [openib-general] CMA: port 2 loopback problems

2006-05-09 Thread Sean Hefty
Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: Until the underlying IB stack supports loopback connections on a non-active port How do you mean? You can already create loopback connections as per IB spec - it works already. It works if the port is active. I don't believe that there's any code to support connect

Re: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH 07/16] ehca: interrupt handling routines

2006-05-09 Thread Shirley Ma
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05/09/2006 01:20:41 PM: > Quoting r. Shirley Ma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > My understanding is NAPI handle interrutps CQ callbacks on the same CPU. > > My understanding is NAPI disables interrupts under high RX load. No? > > -- > MST Yes, NAPI d

Re: [openib-general] ip over ib throughtput

2006-05-09 Thread Talpey, Thomas
Shirley, Hassan - I am *very* interested in these results, and I want to at least mention that I'm doing similar NFS/RDMA testing, and getting some contrasting results. > 699040 699040 1638460.003668.07 (458MB/s) > cpu utilization was around 95%. On my dual-2.4GHz Xeon, with the relati

Re: [openib-general] ip over ib throughtput

2006-05-09 Thread Grant Grundler
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 12:41:30PM -0700, Shirley Ma wrote: > Grant Grundler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05/09/2006 12:05:38 PM: > > > On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 11:36:45AM -0700, Shirley Ma wrote: > > > What throughput did you get on two CPUs? > > > > With one CPU, I get ~2.5-2.8 Gb/s. With two CP

[openib-general] Re: CMA: port 2 loopback problems

2006-05-09 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoting r. Sean Hefty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > my thinking is to have the RDMA CM select the first active port when > connecting in loopback. OK. The way to do this I guess is to scan all devices along the lines of what xxx_ip_dev_find does, and check which one is up. -- MST _

[openib-general] Re: [PATCH] cm refcount race fix

2006-05-09 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoting r. Sean Hefty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Subject: RE: [PATCH] cm refcount race fix > > Here's a patch for all of the files that you listed. > > I did do some basic testing and didn't see any issues. Looks fine, changes look trivial which is good. I'll test a bit tomorrow. -- MST __

Re: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH 07/16] ehca: interrupt handling routines

2006-05-09 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoting r. Shirley Ma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > My understanding is NAPI handle interrutps CQ callbacks on the same CPU. My understanding is NAPI disables interrupts under high RX load. No? -- MST ___ openib-general mailing list openib-general@openib.org

Re: [openib-general] CMA: port 2 loopback problems

2006-05-09 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoting r. Sean Hefty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Until the underlying IB stack supports loopback connections on a non-active > port How do you mean? You can already create loopback connections as per IB spec - it works already. -- MST ___ openib-general m

Re: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH 07/16] ehca: interrupt handling routines

2006-05-09 Thread Shirley Ma
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 05/09/2006 11:57:01 AM: > On 09.05.2006, at 18:49, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > >> The trivial way to do it would be to use the same idea as the current > >> ehca driver: just create a thread for receive CQ events and a thread > >> for send CQ events, and defer CQ pol

Re: [openib-general] ip over ib throughtput

2006-05-09 Thread Shirley Ma
Grant Grundler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05/09/2006 12:05:38 PM: > On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 11:36:45AM -0700, Shirley Ma wrote: > > What throughput did you get on two CPUs? > > With one CPU, I get ~2.5-2.8 Gb/s. With two CPUs: 3.5-3.6 Gb/s. > The last SVN version I tested was 2.6.15 + r4929 (s

Re: [openib-general] CMA: port 2 loopback problems

2006-05-09 Thread Sean Hefty
Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: I thought about this too. People actually do expect loopback to work when link is down. I guess we could create "loopback" path record, with parameters such as SL editable from sysfs. Until the underlying IB stack supports loopback connections on a non-active port, m

Re: [openib-general][PATCH] srp: tuned parameters,

2006-05-09 Thread Roland Dreier
I finally looked this over. First, this should be two patches: making srp_sg_tablesize tunable should be a separate change from making it possible to specify max_cmd_per_lun for a target. The srp_sg_tablesize change makes the default number of SG entries quite a bit larger than it is now, which m

[openib-general] RE: [PATCH] cm refcount race fix

2006-05-09 Thread Sean Hefty
Here's a patch for all of the files that you listed. I did do some basic testing and didn't see any issues. Signed-off-by: Sean Hefty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Index: mad_rmpp.c === --- mad_rmpp.c (revision 6884) +++ mad_rmpp.c (work

Re: [openib-general][patch review] srp: fmr implementation,

2006-05-09 Thread Roland Dreier
BTW, does Mellanox (or anyone else) have any numbers showing that using FMRs makes any difference in performance on a semi-realistic benchmark? - R. ___ openib-general mailing list openib-general@openib.org http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-gene

Re: [openib-general][patch review] srp: fmr implementation,

2006-05-09 Thread Roland Dreier
Tziporet> Roland, What is the status of the FMR patch? When do Tziporet> you expect it to be on the trunk? It seems good. I should check it into svn today. I still need to figure out how I want to put it on the for-2.6.18 git branch, since it depends on some earlier fixes that Linus has

Re: [openib-general] ip over ib throughtput

2006-05-09 Thread Grant Grundler
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 11:36:45AM -0700, Shirley Ma wrote: > What throughput did you get on two CPUs? With one CPU, I get ~2.5-2.8 Gb/s. With two CPUs: 3.5-3.6 Gb/s. The last SVN version I tested was 2.6.15 + r4929 (several monthes ago). To be clear, "one CPU" means the netperf process is bound

RE: [openib-general][patch review] srp: fmr implementation,

2006-05-09 Thread Tziporet Koren
Roland, What is the status of the FMR patch? When do you expect it to be on the trunk? Thanks Tziporet -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vu Pham Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 10:12 PM To: Roland Dreier Cc: openib-general@openib.org Subject: Re:

Re: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH 07/16] ehca: interrupt handling routines

2006-05-09 Thread Heiko J Schick
On 09.05.2006, at 18:49, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: The trivial way to do it would be to use the same idea as the current ehca driver: just create a thread for receive CQ events and a thread for send CQ events, and defer CQ polling into those two threads. For RX, isn't this basically what NAPI

[openib-general] Re: Re: [PATCH 07/16] ehca: interrupt handling routines

2006-05-09 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoting r. Shirley Ma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > No, CPU utilization wasn't reduced. When you use single CQ, NAPI polls on > both RX/TX. I think NAPI's point is to reduce the interrupt rate. Wouldn't this reduce CPU load? > netperf, iperf, mpstat, netpipe, oprofiling, what's your suggestion? netper

Re: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH 07/16] ehca: interrupt handling routines

2006-05-09 Thread Shirley Ma
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05/09/2006 11:44:52 AM: > Quoting r. Shirley Ma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > According to some results from different resouces, NAPI only gives > 3%-10% performance improvement on single CQ. > > When you say performance you mean bandwidth. > But I th

Re: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH 07/16] ehca: interrupt handling routines

2006-05-09 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoting r. Shirley Ma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > According to some results from different resouces, NAPI only gives 3%-10% > performance improvement on single CQ. When you say performance you mean bandwidth. But I think it should improve the CPU utilization on RX side significantly. If it does, that

Re: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH 07/16] ehca: interrupt handling routines

2006-05-09 Thread Shirley Ma
Roland Dreier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05/09/2006 11:36:07 AM: > But there's no reason why the two threads can't be pinned to different > CPUs or given exclusive CPU masks, exactly the same way that ehca > implements it. > >  - R. I could try this. Let's see how much latency increase there.

[openib-general] Re: NOP problem in ib_mthca on OFED RC4

2006-05-09 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoting r. [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Subject: Re: NOP problem in ib_mthca on OFED RC4 > > > Michael, > > > > > Which FW revision do you have? > > > > > > > The "ibstat" command shows: > > > > > > CA type: MT25204 > > > Number of ports: 1 > > > Firmware vers

Re: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH 07/16] ehca: interrupt handling routines

2006-05-09 Thread Roland Dreier
Shirley> I have done some patch like that on top of splitting Shirley> CQ. The problem I found that hardware interrupt favors Shirley> one CPU. Most of the time these two threads are running Shirley> on the same cpu according to my debug output. You can Shirley> easily find out

[openib-general] Re: NOP problem in ib_mthca on OFED RC4

2006-05-09 Thread Don . Albert
Michael, > > > Which FW revision do you have? > > > > > The "ibstat" command shows: > > > >         CA type: MT25204 > >         Number of ports: 1 > >         Firmware version: 1.0.800 > >         Hardware version: a0 > >         Node GUID: 0x0002c90200216dc4 > >         System image GUID: 0x00

Re: [openib-general] ip over ib throughtput

2006-05-09 Thread Shirley Ma
Grant, > You might also try the netperf "-T" option to bind the netserver > process to a different CPU.  If two CPUs are available, IPoIB throughput > is better with the interrupts handled on a different CPU than the one > handling the data. > > grant What throughput did you get on two CPUs? T

Re: [openib-general] ip over ib throughtput

2006-05-09 Thread Grant Grundler
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 05:52:17PM -0500, Hassan M. Jafri wrote: > I cant crank out more than 150 MB/sec with my 2.0 GHz xeons. verbs level > benchmarks, however give decent numbers for bandwidth. With netperf, the > server side CPU usage is 99% which is much higher than other posted > bandwidth

Re: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH 07/16] ehca: interrupt handling routines

2006-05-09 Thread Shirley Ma
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 05/09/2006 09:49:19 AM: > Quoting r. Roland Dreier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > The trivial way to do it would be to use the same idea as the current > > ehca driver: just create a thread for receive CQ events and a thread > > for send CQ events, and defer CQ polling into t

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH 0/3] opensm: low-level QoS implementation (take 2) [was: Series short description]

2006-05-09 Thread Sasha Khapyorsky
Sorry, subject should be "opensm: low-level QoS implementation (take 2)" On 21:00 Tue 09 May , Sasha Khapyorsky wrote: > Hello, > > There is "take 2" of support for low level Quality of Service (QoS) > parameters configuration and setup in OpenSM. > > The changes against previous version are

Re: [openib-general] compilation warnings in libibcm

2006-05-09 Thread Sean Hefty
Dotan Barak wrote: Compilation of the gen2 driver generate compilation warnings when compiling the libibcm. I've committed changes that should eliminate these warnings. I've also updated librdmacm to replace deprecated function/structure names with the latest names. Thanks. - Sean __

RE: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH] update uDAPL openib_cma provider to work with new uCMA event channels

2006-05-09 Thread Sean Hefty
>> Sync up with Sean on commits. > >I'm watching for Sean's commit. Did I miss it? It looks like my commit failed for some reason, and I missed it. I've just re-committed the changes, which should be in revision 7019. - Sean ___ openib-general mailing

[openib-general] [PATCH 3/3] opensm: no_qos global option

2006-05-09 Thread Sasha Khapyorsky
This new option '--no_qos' (or '-O') will disable QoS setup globally in OpenSM. Signed-off-by: Sasha Khapyorsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- osm/include/opensm/osm_subnet.h |1 + osm/opensm/main.c | 10 +- osm/opensm/osm_qos.c|3 +++ osm/opensm/osm_subnet.

[openib-general] [PATCH 2/3] opensm: basic QoS implementation

2006-05-09 Thread Sasha Khapyorsky
Basic low-level QoS implementation. The main procedure (osm_qos_setup()) will be called from resweeper (after configuration refreshing). And then this will setup low level QoS related ports' attributes (PortInfo:VLHighLimit, VL*Arbitration and SL2VLMapping tables). Different port categories (HCA,

[openib-general] [PATCH 1/3] opensm: low-level QoS configuration

2006-05-09 Thread Sasha Khapyorsky
Trivial low-level QoS configuration parameters description, definition and processing. Signed-off-by: Sasha Khapyorsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- osm/doc/qos-config.txt | 44 + osm/include/opensm/osm_subnet.h | 81 osm/opensm/osm_subnet.c |

[openib-general] [PATCH 0/3] Series short description

2006-05-09 Thread Sasha Khapyorsky
Hello, There is "take 2" of support for low level Quality of Service (QoS) parameters configuration and setup in OpenSM. The changes against previous version are: - consistent default values for QoS configuration parameters (as suggested by Eitan Zahavi) - global '--no_qos' option which disabl

[openib-general] [GIT PULL] InfiniBand updates for 2.6.17-rc3

2006-05-09 Thread Roland Dreier
Linus, please pull from master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband.git for-linus This tree is also available from kernel.org mirrors at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband.git for-linus The changes and patch are: Ralph Campbell: IB

[openib-general] [PATCH] osmtest: Add rudimentary SA MultiPathRecord tests

2006-05-09 Thread Hal Rosenstock
osmtest: Add rudimentary SA MultiPathRecord tests Signed-off-by: Hal Rosenstock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: osmtest/osmtest.c === --- osmtest/osmtest.c (revision 7007) +++ osmtest/osmtest.c (working copy) @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ /* + * Co

[openib-general] Re: [PATCH] cm refcount race fix

2006-05-09 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoting r. Sean Hefty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Subject: RE: [PATCH] cm refcount race fix > > Here's a patch that should fix both the IB CM and RDMA CM using > completions rather than spinlock / wait objects. > > Michael, can you test that this version works for you? Looks sane, I'll test tomorrow.

[openib-general] RE: [PATCH] cm refcount race fix

2006-05-09 Thread Sean Hefty
Here's a patch that should fix both the IB CM and RDMA CM using completions rather than spinlock / wait objects. Michael, can you test that this version works for you? Signed-off-by: Sean Hefty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Index: cm.c ===

[openib-general] [PATCH] OpenSM: Add SA client API for MultiPathRecord queries

2006-05-09 Thread Hal Rosenstock
OpenSM: Add SA client API for MultiPathRecord queries Signed-off-by: Hal Rosenstock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: include/vendor/osm_vendor_sa_api.h === --- include/vendor/osm_vendor_sa_api.h (revision 7007) +++ include/vendor/osm_vend

[openib-general] Re: [PATCH 07/16] ehca: interrupt handling routines

2006-05-09 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoting r. Roland Dreier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The trivial way to do it would be to use the same idea as the current > ehca driver: just create a thread for receive CQ events and a thread > for send CQ events, and defer CQ polling into those two threads. For RX, isn't this basically what NAPI is

Re: [openib-general][RFC][PATCH] core/sysfs.c: ability to reset port counters

2006-05-09 Thread Hal Rosenstock
On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 12:29, Roland Dreier wrote: > Leonid> we need a possibility to reset the port counters in > Leonid> /sys/class/infiniband/mthca0/ports/1/counters/. > > Why do you need this possibility? Having counters reset locally is > going to confuse any performance manager

[openib-general] Re: CMA: compliancy issue?

2006-05-09 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoting r. Sean Hefty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Subject: Re: CMA: compliancy issue? > > Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > >>>From iSER point of view, this approach is fine, and it would allow for > >>some future flexibility to reject the REP. We prefer to implement it > >>only for 2.6.19, that is when 2.6.

Re: [openib-general][RFC][PATCH] core/sysfs.c: ability to reset port counters

2006-05-09 Thread Roland Dreier
Leonid> we need a possibility to reset the port counters in Leonid> /sys/class/infiniband/mthca0/ports/1/counters/. Why do you need this possibility? Having counters reset locally is going to confuse any performance manager running on the fabric that might be reading the counters rem

[openib-general] RE: [PATCH 0/2] opensm: low-level QoS implementation

2006-05-09 Thread Eitan Zahavi
Hi Sasha Thanks for clearing the issues. I'm OK with the RFC. Eitan Zahavi Design Technology Director Mellanox Technologies LTD Tel:+972-4-9097208 Fax:+972-4-9593245 P.O. Box 586 Yokneam 20692 ISRAEL > -Original Message- > From: Sasha Khapyorsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday

[openib-general] Re: CMA: compliancy issue?

2006-05-09 Thread Sean Hefty
Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: From iSER point of view, this approach is fine, and it would allow for some future flexibility to reject the REP. We prefer to implement it only for 2.6.19, that is when 2.6.18-rc1 is out. Let us start by implementing this in SVN trunk. Sean, if you agree too, can yo

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH 3/3] librdmacm: add ability to get/set transport specific options

2006-05-09 Thread Sean Hefty
Jack Morgenstein wrote: Use of local_sa in the rdma_cm kernel module is already patched out for OFED. local_sa is used ONLY in kernel cma.c ( static function cma_resolve_ib_route(), which calls ib_get_path_rec()). Icall to ib_get_path_rec() is eliminated, and we call cma_query_ib_route() direct

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH 07/16] ehca: interrupt handling routines

2006-05-09 Thread Roland Dreier
Heiko> Yes, I agree. It would not be an optimal solution, because Heiko> other upper level protocols (e.g. SDP, SRP, etc.) or Heiko> userspace verbs would not be affected by this Heiko> changes. Nevertheless, how can an improved "scaling" or Heiko> "SMP" version of IPoIB look li

[openib-general] Re: [PATCH 0/2] opensm: low-level QoS implementation

2006-05-09 Thread Sasha Khapyorsky
On 18:04 Tue 09 May , Eitan Zahavi wrote: > > > > [EZ] Please note that algorithm to validate the applicability of the > > > above on the > > > particular fabric is still required as not all devices > support > > > the 16 VLs > > > > VL numbers are translated according to port's capa

[openib-general] Re: NOP problem in ib_mthca on OFED RC4

2006-05-09 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoting r. [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Subject: Re: NOP problem in ib_mthca on OFED RC4 > > > Michael, > > "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05/08/2006 10:32:01 PM: > > > Quoting r. [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > When I had the problem previously, Rola

[openib-general] Re: NOP problem in ib_mthca on OFED RC4

2006-05-09 Thread Don . Albert
Michael, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05/08/2006 10:32:01 PM: > Quoting r. [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > When I had the problem previously, Roland Drier suggested trying > to load the ib_mthca module with "fw_cmd_doorbell=0",  which did > avoid the error then,

[openib-general] RE: [PATCH 0/2] opensm: low-level QoS implementation

2006-05-09 Thread Eitan Zahavi
Hi Sasha, I have cut and paste only the sections I would like to further comment on. Eitan > > [EZ] Please note that algorithm to validate the applicability of the > > above on the > > particular fabric is still required as not all devices support > > the 16 VLs > > VL numbers are tra

[openib-general] Re: problem with applications like telnet over SDP

2006-05-09 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoting r. keshetti mahesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Subject: problem with applications like telnet over SDP > > hello > > can anybody tell me ..do i need to configure anything > to make applications like TELNET,FTP,...work over SDP > > The normal socket applications are working fine over > SDP wit

[openib-general] Re: [PATCH 0/2] opensm: low-level QoS implementation

2006-05-09 Thread Sasha Khapyorsky
Hi Eitan, On 14:20 Tue 09 May , Eitan Zahavi wrote: > > It is great that you work on QoS implementation. In general I see this > simple extension of the SM capabilities as very useful one. But I think > it would have been better if you first send out the RFC for the proposed > functionality a

Re: [openib-general] Re: Need OpenIB bugzilla component for RDS

2006-05-09 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 10:07 -0700, Ranjit Pandit wrote: > Please mark me as the default owner of RDS bugs. As it turns out, I "fired and forgot", and didn't check the result of creating the component. It failed because you don't have a Bugzilla account. Please create one. http://openib

[openib-general] problem with applications like telnet over SDP

2006-05-09 Thread keshetti mahesh
hello can anybody tell me ..do i need to configure anything to make applications like TELNET,FTP,...work over SDP The normal socket applications are working fine over SDP with the setup i am using. i have configured /etc/libsdp.conf like below >match listen *:* >match destination *:* >match pro

[openib-general] compilation warnings in libibcm

2006-05-09 Thread Dotan Barak
Driver Version: openib_gen2-20060509-0800 (REV=7002) Here are the compilation warnings: make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/openib_gen2/last_stable/src/userspace/libibcm' if /bin/sh ./libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -I./include -I../libibverbs/include -g

[openib-general] compilation warning in libibcm

2006-05-09 Thread Dotan Barak
make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/openib_gen2/last_stable/src/userspace/libibcm' if /bin/sh ./libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -I./include -I../libibverbs/include -g -Wall -D_GNU_SOURCE -g -O2 -MT cm.lo -MD -MP -MF ".deps/cm.Tpo" -c -o cm.lo `test -f 'src/cm.c' ||

Re: [openib-general][RFC][PATCH] core/sysfs.c: ability to reset port counters

2006-05-09 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
I think the capability to reset counters is useful. Some comments on the patch: Quoting r. Leonid Arsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Subject: [openib-general][RFC][PATCH] core/sysfs.c: ability to reset port > counters > > > Hello, > > we need a possibility to reset the port counters in > /sys/c

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH 07/16] ehca: interrupt handling routines

2006-05-09 Thread Christoph Hellwig
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Re: [openib-general] [PATCH 07/16] ehca: interrupt handling routines

2006-05-09 Thread Heiko J Schick
Roland Dreier wrote: Heiko> Originaly, we had the same idea as you mentioned, that it Heiko> would be better to do this in the higher levels. The point Heiko> is that we can't see so far any simple posibility how this Heiko> can done in the OpenIB stack, the TCP/IP network layer o

[openib-general] Re: sdp can't support many connections (>2000)

2006-05-09 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoting r. zhu shi song <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Subject: Re: sdp can't support many connections (>2000) > > ab send the request to squid cache server running on > Machine B. Then squid send the real request to google > website. > So how can I upgrade my version to solve the > problem? > > zh

[openib-general][RFC][PATCH] core/sysfs.c: ability to reset port counters

2006-05-09 Thread Leonid Arsh
Hello, we need a possibility to reset the port counters in /sys/class/infiniband/mthca0/ports/1/counters/. The attached patch implements the ability to reset the counters by writing to the sysfs counter files. The patch uses the same process_mad() mechanism as in the counter re

[openib-general] Re: sdp can't support many connections (>2000)

2006-05-09 Thread zhu shi song
ab send the request to squid cache server running on Machine B. Then squid send the real request to google website. So how can I upgrade my version to solve the problem? zhu --- "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting r. zhu shi song <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Subject: sdp

[openib-general] Re: sdp can't support many connections (>2000)

2006-05-09 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoting r. zhu shi song <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Subject: sdp can't support many connections (>2000) > >after I have upgraded firmware to MT25204 1.0.8 > from 1.0.1, sdp doesn't cause the kernel panic again. > But after executing LD_PRELOAD=libsdp.so ab -c 1000 -n > 1000 -X 193.12.10.14:3129 ht

[openib-general] RE: [PATCH 0/2] opensm: low-level QoS implementation

2006-05-09 Thread Eitan Zahavi
Hi Sasha, Hal, It is great that you work on QoS implementation. In general I see this simple extension of the SM capabilities as very useful one. But I think it would have been better if you first send out the RFC for the proposed functionality and only later implement it (as was done on the parti

[openib-general] sdp can't support many connections (>2000)

2006-05-09 Thread zhu shi song
after I have upgraded firmware to MT25204 1.0.8 from 1.0.1, sdp doesn't cause the kernel panic again. But after executing LD_PRELOAD=libsdp.so ab -c 1000 -n 1000 -X 193.12.10.14:3129 http://www.google.com about three times continually, I can't connect Machine B from Machine A. I must reboot th

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH 3/3] librdmacm: add ability to get/set transport specific options

2006-05-09 Thread Jack Morgenstein
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 02:46, you wrote: > The end-users should probably decide that. These changes use the local_sa, > which has not been queued to be merged upstream yet. Use of local_sa in the rdma_cm kernel module is already patched out for OFED. local_sa is used ONLY in kernel cma.c ( static

[openib-general] Re: Re: CMA: compliancy issue?

2006-05-09 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoting r. Or Gerlitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >From iSER point of view, this approach is fine, and it would allow for > some future flexibility to reject the REP. We prefer to implement it > only for 2.6.19, that is when 2.6.18-rc1 is out. Let us start by implementing this in SVN trunk. Sean, if yo

[openib-general] sdp kernel panic

2006-05-09 Thread zhu shi song
OS: Redhat AMD64/EMT64 64-bit Enterprise Linux v3 update 4 IB: IBG2.0.1 downloaded from mellanox website HCA: MT 25204 APP: squid-2.5-stable13, ab(apache benchmark distributed with httpd 2.2.0) I use two HCA cards to connect two computers directly. on Machine B run command: LD_PRELOAD=libsdp.so sq

[openib-general] sdp kernel panic

2006-05-09 Thread zhu shi song
OS: Redhat AMD64/EMT64 64-bit Enterprise Linux v3 update 4 IB: IBG2.0.1 downloaded from mellanox website HCA: MT 25204 APP: squid-2.5-stable13, ab(apache benchmark distributed with httpd 2.2.0) I use two HCA cards to connect two computers directly. on Machine B run command: LD_PRELOAD=libsdp.so sq