Re: [openib-general] Re: Speeding up IPoIB.

2006-04-24 Thread James Lentini
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Bernard King-Smith wrote: > Grant Grundler wrote: > > Grant> My guess is it's an easier problem to fix SDP than reducing TCP/IP > > Grant> cache/CPU foot print. I realize only a subset of apps can (or will > > Grant> try to) use SDP because of setup/config issues. I still b

[openib-general] Re: Speeding up IPoIB.

2006-04-21 Thread Bernard King-Smith
Grant Grundler wrote: > Grant> My guess is it's an easier problem to fix SDP than reducing TCP/IP > Grant> cache/CPU foot print. I realize only a subset of apps can (or will > Grant> try to) use SDP because of setup/config issues. I still believe SDP > Grant> is useful to a majority of apps withou

[openib-general] Re: Speeding up IPoIB.

2006-04-21 Thread Grant Grundler
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 09:03:29PM -0400, Bernard King-Smith wrote: > Grant> My guess is it's an easier problem to fix SDP than reducing TCP/IP > Grant> cache/CPU foot print. I realize only a subset of apps can (or will > Grant> try to) use SDP because of setup/config issues. I still believe SDP >

Re: [openib-general] Re: Speeding up IPoIB.

2006-04-20 Thread Hal Rosenstock
On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 21:03, Bernard King-Smith wrote: > Grant Grundler wrote: > > > Currently we only get 40% of the link bandwidth compared to > > 85% for 10 GigE. (Yes I know the cost differences which favor IB ). > > Grant> 10gige is getting 85% without TOE? > Grant> Or are they distributing

[openib-general] Re: Speeding up IPoIB.

2006-04-20 Thread Bernard King-Smith
Grant Grundler wrote: > Currently we only get 40% of the link bandwidth compared to > 85% for 10 GigE. (Yes I know the cost differences which favor IB ). Grant> 10gige is getting 85% without TOE? Grant> Or are they distributing event handling across several CPUs? On 10 GigE they are using large

[openib-general] Re: Speeding up IPoIB.

2006-04-19 Thread Grant Grundler
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 03:10:29PM -0400, Bernard King-Smith wrote: > Grant> I'm expect splitting the RX/TX completions would achieve something > Grant> similar since we are just "slicing" the same problem from a > different > Grant> angle. Apps typically do both RX and TX and will be running on o