Mellanox...?

On Mar 2, 2011, at 12:51 PM, Michael Shuey wrote:

> Honestly, I don't know - I haven't looked into the source.  OFED 1.5.2
> has a version of ibv_rc_pingpong that's been modified to work with
> RoCE; you can pass the gid_index and SL as command-line arguments.
> I'm not sure how that's handled at the IB layer, but the source may be
> a good place to start.
> 
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> Mike Shuey
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Jeff Squyres <jsquy...@cisco.com> wrote:
>> I thought you mentioned in a prior email that you had gotten one or two 
>> other OFED sample applications to work properly.  How are they setting the 
>> SL?  Are they not using the RDMA CM?
>> 
>> 
>> On Mar 1, 2011, at 7:35 AM, Michael Shuey wrote:
>> 
>>> So, since RoCE has no SM, and setting an SL is required to get
>>> lossless ethernet on Cisco switches (and possibly others), does this
>>> mean that RoCE will never work correctly with OpenMPI on Cisco
>>> hardware?
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Mike Shuey
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 3:42 AM, Doron Shoham <dor...@mellanox.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> Regarding to using a specific SL with RDMA CM, I've checked in the code 
>>>> and it seems that RDMA_CM uses the SL from the SA.
>>>> So if you want to configure a specific SL, you need to do it via the SM.
>>>> 
>>>> Doron
>>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Jeff Squyres [mailto:jsquy...@cisco.com]
>>>> Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 3:45 PM
>>>> To: Michael Shuey
>>>> Cc: Open MPI Users , Mike Dubman
>>>> Subject: Re: [OMPI users] RoCE (IBoE) & OpenMPI
>>>> 
>>>> On Feb 24, 2011, at 8:00 AM, Michael Shuey wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Late yesterday I did have a chance to test the patch Jeff provided
>>>>> (against 1.4.3 - testing 1.5.x is on the docket for today).  While it
>>>>> works, in that I can specify a gid_index,
>>>> 
>>>> Great!  I'll commit that to the trunk and start the process of moving it 
>>>> to the v1.5.x series (I know you haven't tested it yet, but it's 
>>>> essentially the same patch, just slightly adjusted for each of the 3 
>>>> branches).
>>>> 
>>>>> it doesn't do everything
>>>>> required - my traffic won't match a lossless CoS on the ethernet
>>>>> switch.  Specifying a GID is only half of it; I really need to also
>>>>> specify a service level.
>>>> 
>>>> RoCE requires the use of the RDMA CM (I think?), and I didn't think there 
>>>> was a way to request a specific SL via the RDMA CM...?  (I could certainly 
>>>> be wrong here)
>>>> 
>>>> I think Mellanox will need to follow up with these questions...
>>>> 
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