[rds-devel] Has anyone tried running RDS over 10GE / IWARP NICs ?

Richard Frank richard.frank at oracle.com
Wed Apr 2 11:51:53 PDT 2008


Who's cards are these - perhaps they will want to get RDS running and 
help out ?

Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen) wrote:
> Sorry, but I doubt I will have time to rebuild RDS and try this.
>
> Scott
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Richard Frank [mailto:richard.frank at oracle.com] 
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 11:23 AM
>> To: Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen)
>> Cc: rds-devel at oss.oracle.com
>> Subject: Re: [rds-devel] Has anyone tried running RDS over 
>> 10GE / IWARP NICs ?
>>
>> OK - well - I guess we are not too surprised...
>>
>> Short of us getting some these NICs to sort this out ourselves..
>>
>> Can you enable rds debug in configure.mk and send us the dmesg + 
>> /var/log/messages
>>
>> You will need to unload/load rds after building it with debug..
>>
>> Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen) wrote:
>>     
>>> Yes, it's an iWARP NIC, and the OFED 1.3 perftest 
>>>       
>> ib_rdma_lat program is
>>     
>>> working.
>>>
>>> Scott
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Richard Frank [mailto:richard.frank at oracle.com] 
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 11:04 AM
>>>> To: Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen)
>>>> Cc: rds-devel at oss.oracle.com; [ofa_general]
>>>> Subject: Re: [rds-devel] Has anyone tried running RDS over 
>>>> 10GE / IWARP NICs ?
>>>>
>>>> RDS does not run over regular 10G NICs - that appear as 
>>>>         
>> simple NICS - 
>>     
>>>> this was disabled in 1.3.
>>>>
>>>> For now we  are interested in RDS over IWARP NICS - configured as 
>>>> accessible via the verbs interfaces.
>>>>
>>>> Richard Frank wrote:
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>>> is the rds driver loaded (modprobe rds)
>>>>>
>>>>> Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen) wrote:
>>>>>   
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Does't appear to work with Chelsio and OFED 1.3:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [root at svbu-qa2950-1 counters]# ethtool -i eth2
>>>>>> driver: cxgb3
>>>>>> version: 1.0-ofed
>>>>>> firmware-version: T 5.0.0 TP 1.1.0
>>>>>> bus-info: 0000:0b:00.0
>>>>>> [root at svbu-qa2950-1 counters]# ifconfig eth2
>>>>>> eth2      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:07:43:05:43:9F
>>>>>>           inet addr:192.168.0.198  Bcast:192.168.0.255
>>>>>> Mask:255.255.255.0
>>>>>>           inet6 addr: fe80::207:43ff:fe05:439f/64 Scope:Link
>>>>>>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>>>>>>           RX packets:144770 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>>>>>>           TX packets:144781 errors:0 dropped:0 
>>>>>>             
>> overruns:0 carrier:0
>>     
>>>>>>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>>>>>>           RX bytes:207891512 (198.2 MiB)  TX bytes:9348152 
>>>>>>         
>>>>>>             
>>>> (8.9 MiB)
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>>>>           Interrupt:169 Memory:fceff000-fcefffff
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [root at svbu-qa2950-1 counters]# rds-sink -s 
>>>>>>             
>> 192.168.0.198:22222 -i 1
>>     
>>>>>> rds-sink: Unable to bind socket: Cannot assign requested address
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Scott Weitzenkamp
>>>>>> SQA and Release Manager
>>>>>> Data Center Access Engineering
>>>>>> Cisco Systems
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   
>>>>>>     
>>>>>>         
>>>>>>             
>>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>>> From: rds-devel-bounces at oss.oracle.com 
>>>>>>> [mailto:rds-devel-bounces at oss.oracle.com] On Behalf Of 
>>>>>>>           
>>>>>>>               
>>>> Richard Frank
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 10:31 AM
>>>>>>> To: rds-devel at oss.oracle.com; [ofa_general]
>>>>>>> Subject: [rds-devel] Has anyone tried running RDS over 10GE / 
>>>>>>> IWARP NICs ?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We'd appreciate some feed back on your experience and would 
>>>>>>> like to sort 
>>>>>>> out any issues ASAP.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Rick
>>>>>>>
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