Re: [openib-general] Multi-port HCA

2006-10-06 Thread john t
Hi Shannon, The bandwidth figures that you quoted below match with my readings for single port Mellanox DDR HCA (both for unidirection and bidirection). So it seems dual port SDR HCA performs as good as single port DDR HCA. It would help if you can also tell the bandwidth that you got using one

Re: [openib-general] ipoib mcast questions...

2006-10-06 Thread Arthur Jones
hi roland, ... On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 09:18:36PM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote: 1) the set_multicast_list net device callback seems to just kick off another thread to do the work of registering the multicast group. the mc_list net_device field is only valid under the netif_tx_lock,

[openib-general] [PATCH] RFC libibverbs, pass AEs to provider library.

2006-10-06 Thread Steve Wise
Roland, This is just an RFC patch (untested). I'm adding bypass support to a device and have a need to know whenever an async event is delivered to the consumer. It allows the bypass library to do WQ or CQ processing that needs to happen when a fatal async event happens. This async callback

Re: [openib-general] ipoib mcast questions...

2006-10-06 Thread Hal Rosenstock
On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 11:17, Arthur Jones wrote: hi roland, ... On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 09:18:36PM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote: 1) the set_multicast_list net device callback seems to just kick off another thread to do the work of registering the multicast group. the mc_list

[openib-general] Infiniband Crossover Cable

2006-10-06 Thread Adit Ranadive
Im doing project in Xen+IB and wanted to connect two nodes using the IB interconnect.. I wanted to know if there is any kind of crossover cable available which allows me to connect just these 2 nodes without the use of a switch? Thanks, Adit Ranadive Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

Re: [openib-general] Infiniband Crossover Cable

2006-10-06 Thread Hal Rosenstock
On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 11:28, Adit Ranadive wrote: Im doing project in Xen+IB and wanted to connect two nodes using the IB interconnect.. I wanted to know if there is any kind of crossover cable available which allows me to connect just these 2 nodes without the use of a switch? The same

Re: [openib-general] Infiniband Crossover Cable

2006-10-06 Thread Cain, Brian (GE Healthcare)
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adit Ranadive Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 10:29 AM To: openib-general@openib.org Subject: [openib-general] Infiniband Crossover Cable Im doing project in Xen+IB and wanted to connect two nodes

Re: [openib-general] ipoib mcast questions...

2006-10-06 Thread Arthur Jones
hi hal, ... On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 11:26:26AM -0400, Hal Rosenstock wrote: [...] i'm imagining that all the proprietary eth interfaces + ipoib need to do about the same thing when it comes to registering with mcast groups. would you (all) be averse to pulling some of the mcast group

Re: [openib-general] ipoib mcast questions...

2006-10-06 Thread Hal Rosenstock
On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 11:44, Arthur Jones wrote: hi hal, ... On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 11:26:26AM -0400, Hal Rosenstock wrote: [...] i'm imagining that all the proprietary eth interfaces + ipoib need to do about the same thing when it comes to registering with mcast groups. would

Re: [openib-general] ipoib mcast questions...

2006-10-06 Thread Sean Hefty
Hal Rosenstock wrote: i didn't know about this work. do you know where i can find it? I think it is in svn trunk. It's in svn. I've create patches against for-2.6.19, and will post that as part of a request to merge some on the features upstream. - Sean

Re: [openib-general] ipoib mcast questions...

2006-10-06 Thread Arthur Jones
thanks all! i'll have a look... arthur On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 09:37:39AM -0700, Sean Hefty wrote: Hal Rosenstock wrote: i didn't know about this work. do you know where i can find it? I think it is in svn trunk. It's in svn. I've create patches against for-2.6.19, and will post

Re: [openib-general] Multi-port HCA

2006-10-06 Thread Michael Krause
Off-line someone asked me to clarify my earlier e-mail. Given this discussion continues, perhaps this might help explain the performance a bit more. The Max Payload Size quoted here is what is typically implemented on x86 chipsets though other chipsets may use a larger value. From a pure

[openib-general] [PATCH] OpenSM: Improve handling of IB router ports

2006-10-06 Thread Hal Rosenstock
OpenSM: Improve handling of IB router ports Signed-off-by: Hal Rosenstock [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Index: opensm/osm_drop_mgr.c === --- opensm/osm_drop_mgr.c (revision 9679) +++ opensm/osm_drop_mgr.c (working copy) @@

Re: [openib-general] Multi-port HCA

2006-10-06 Thread Shannon V. Davidson
john t wrote: Hi Shannon, The bandwidth figures that you quoted below match with my readings for single port Mellanox DDR HCA (both for unidirection and bidirection). So it seems dual port SDR HCA performs as good as single port DDR HCA. It would help if you can also tell the bandwidth

Re: [openib-general] ipoib mcast questions...

2006-10-06 Thread Arthur Jones
hi hal, ... On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 11:26:26AM -0400, Hal Rosenstock wrote: [...] i'm imagining that all the proprietary eth interfaces + ipoib need to do about the same thing when it comes to registering with mcast groups. would you (all) be averse to pulling some of the mcast group

Re: [openib-general] ipoib mcast questions...

2006-10-06 Thread Hal Rosenstock
On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 15:47, Arthur Jones wrote: hi hal, ... On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 11:26:26AM -0400, Hal Rosenstock wrote: [...] i'm imagining that all the proprietary eth interfaces + ipoib need to do about the same thing when it comes to registering with mcast groups. would

Re: [openib-general] ipoib mcast questions...

2006-10-06 Thread Arthur Jones
hi hal, ... On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 04:09:05PM -0400, Hal Rosenstock wrote: On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 15:47, Arthur Jones wrote: hi hal, ... On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 11:26:26AM -0400, Hal Rosenstock wrote: [...] i'm imagining that all the proprietary eth interfaces + ipoib need to

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH] 2.6.19 rdma_cm: add rdma_establish call to connect if RTU is lost

2006-10-06 Thread Or Gerlitz
On 10/5/06, Sean Hefty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm confused -- how does this fix anything? I don't see any callers of the new rdma_establish() function ?? This was submitted at the request of Michael and Or, so I'll let them comment. There are no in tree passive side users of the rdma_cm,

[openib-general] [PATCH] RFC libibverbs - Pass provider data through ibv_cmd_req_notify_cq()

2006-10-06 Thread Steve Wise
Roland, Here is another change I need to support kernel bypass in the driver I'm working on. For this device, the req_notify_cq() operation cannot be bypassed. Further, the lib needs to pass some info down to the kernel verb to correctly implement re-arm. This patch enables passing

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH] RFC libibverbs - Pass provider data through ibv_cmd_req_notify_cq()

2006-10-06 Thread Steve Wise
On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 17:29 -0500, Steve Wise wrote: Roland, Here is another change I need to support kernel bypass in the driver I'm working on. For this device, the req_notify_cq() operation cannot be bypassed. Further, the lib needs to pass some info down to the kernel verb to

[openib-general] new server up and running

2006-10-06 Thread Johann George
As many of you know, we have been in the process of finding a hosting company that could host the OpenFabrics site along with the SVN/git/? repository, wiki pages, etc. This has been done and the server is up and running. It is a dedicated server hosted by johncompanies.com, has dual-core 3.4GHz