[ofa-general] Re: minutes from socket over RDMA discussion at workshop

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

> Quoting Rick Jones <rick.jones2 at hp.com>:
> Subject: Re: minutes from socket over RDMA discussion at workshop
> 
> >>The OFED is whatever is in RHEL5 - someone said that might be 1.1.
> >
> >
> >So you are not comparing apples to apples:
> >SPD uses buffers of 64K, IPoIB datagram mode - 2K.
> 
> I won't dispute that, I'll just say it is what people running RHEL5 will 
> see out of the box.

OK but when some people say "IPoIB gives same BW as SDP" they mean 1.2.

> >Report the problem, people'll try to help.
> 
> I thought I had, albeit perhaps too tangentially.  Anyway, I'm running on a 
> Debian 4.0 with a 2.6.21.1 kernel on it (from a kernel.org tar) now and 
> will try a contemporary 1.2 on that.  It seems there is already some OFED 
> stuff in the 2.6.21.1 kernel, so if there are suggestions on how to remove 
> that for a successful 1.2 install, or other suggestions on how to have a 
> successful 1.2 install on 2.6.21.1 I'm all ears.  When it comes to 
> manipulating bits here I'm still on the very steep part of the learning 
> curve.

OFED should really do that for you automatically,
and will even try to put it all back on uninstall.

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