[ewg] questions about OFED 1.2 IPoIB bonding

[Or Gerlitz]

Moni Shoua wrote:
> Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen) wrote:

>> 1) IPoIB bonding and IPoIB CM do seem to work together, but after
>> running ib-bond --bond-ip, I have to manually reconfigure IPoIB CM (both
>> mode and mtu) again, then increase the bond0 mtu.  It would be nice if
>> ib-bond took care of this for me.

> I haven't had a chance yet to test bonding with IPoIB-CM. I'll look into it and try to
> fix what's needed.

I have tried this (bonding ipoib devices whose mode is connected and mtu 
is 65520) and indeed the bond and slaves mtu becomes lower but the mode 
does not change.

>> 5) I've seen some erratic throughput with netperf using bond0 (no
>> failover happening), have you seen this?  For example:

> Can you add please more details about the test environment? OS, ARCH, HW, etc...

can you provide the exact --netperf command line-- you were using.

thanks,

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