[ewg] IPoIB to Ethernet routing performance

[Tziporet Koren]

  On 12/28/2010 5:30 PM, Reeted wrote:
>
> You and Richard seem to have good experience of infiniband in 
> virtualized environments. May I ask one thing?
> We were thinking about buying some Mellanox Connectx-2 for use with 
> SR-IOV (hardware virtualization for PCI bypass, supposedly supported 
> by connectx-2) in KVM (also supposedly supports SR-IOV and PCI bypass).
> Do you have info if this will work, in KVM or other hypervisors?
> I asked in KVM mailing list but they have not tried this card (which 
> is the only SR-IOV card among Infiniband ones, so they have not tried 
> infiniband).
>
We are working on enabling SRIOV on ConnectX2 cards
Once we will have it working with KVM we will submit the patches to the 
linux-rdma list
Should be in few months - but don't ask how much is few :-)

Tziporet