[ofa-general] max_mr limit

Dotan Barak dotanb at dev.mellanox.co.il
Sun Mar 16 23:16:01 PDT 2008


Hi.
What is the typical size of the MRs that you are trying to register?

thanks
Dotan

Rajouri Jammu wrote:
> Jack,
>
> The problem I'm seeing is that I'm not able to register even the 
> default number of memory regions.
> The default is 131056 but I'm not able to register more than 32635 regions
> I'm on OFED -1.2.5.4 <http://1.2.5.4>.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Below is the output of lspci and ibv_devinfo -v. I also recently 
> upgraded to the latest f/w but that didn't make a difference.
>
>
> lspci | grep Mellanox
> 01:00.0 InfiniBand: Mellanox Technologies MT25208 InfiniHost III Ex 
> (Tavor compatibility mode) (rev 20)
>
> ibv_devinfo -v
> hca_id: mthca0
>         fw_ver:                         4.8.200
>         node_guid:                      0006:6a00:9800:8403
>         sys_image_guid:                 0006:6a00:9800:8403
>         vendor_id:                      0x02c9
>         vendor_part_id:                 25208
>         hw_ver:                         0xA0
>         board_id:                       MT_0200000001
>         phys_port_cnt:                  2
>         max_mr_size:                    0xffffffffffffffff
>         page_size_cap:                  0xfffff000
>         max_qp:                         64512
>         max_qp_wr:                      65535
>         device_cap_flags:               0x00001c76
>         max_sge:                        59
>         max_sge_rd:                     0
>         max_cq:                         65408
>         max_cqe:                        131071
>         max_mr:                         131056
>         max_pd:                         32768
>         max_qp_rd_atom:                 4
>         max_ee_rd_atom:                 0
>         max_res_rd_atom:                258048
>         max_qp_init_rd_atom:            128
>         max_ee_init_rd_atom:            0
>         atomic_cap:                     ATOMIC_HCA (1)
>         max_ee:                         0
>         max_rdd:                        0
>         max_mw:                         0
>         max_raw_ipv6_qp:                0
>         max_raw_ethy_qp:                0
>         max_mcast_grp:                  8192
>         max_mcast_qp_attach:            56
>         max_total_mcast_qp_attach:      458752
>         max_ah:                         0
>         max_fmr:                        0
>         max_srq:                        960
>         max_srq_wr:                     65535
>         max_srq_sge:                    31
>         max_pkeys:                      64
>         local_ca_ack_delay:             15
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:35 PM, Jack Morgenstein 
> <jackm at dev.mellanox.co.il <mailto:jackm at dev.mellanox.co.il>> wrote:
>
>     On Tuesday 11 March 2008 19:38, Rajouri Jammu wrote:
>     > I think it's Arabel.
>     >
>     > Both drivers are loaded (ib_mthca and mlx4_core). How do I tell
>     which
>     > driver's settings I should modify?
>     >
>     > What will be the max_mr value if log_num_mpt = 20?
>     >
>
>     To see which device you have, type the following command in your
>     linux console:
>
>     lspci | grep Mellanox
>
>     For ConnectX (mlx4), you will see:
>     InfiniBand: Mellanox Technologies: Unknown device 634a (rev a0)
>      (lspci has not caught up with us yet).
>
>     For Arbel (InfiniHost III), you will see either:
>     InfiniBand: Mellanox Technologies MT25208 InfiniHost III Ex HCA
>     (rev a0)
>
>     or, if you are running your arbel in Tavor compatibility mode:
>
>     InfiniBand: Mellanox Technologies MT25208 InfiniHost III Ex (Tavor
>     compatibility mode) (rev 20)
>     ===========
>     If your installed HCA is a ConnectX, you should use the module
>     parameters for mlx4.
>     If your installed HCA is an InfiniHost III, you should use the
>     module parameters for ib_mthca.
>
>     - Jack
>
>
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