[ewg] bug 1918 - openmpi broken due to rdma-cm changes
Steve Wise
swise at opengridcomputing.com
Thu Feb 4 14:49:34 PST 2010
Sean Hefty wrote:
>> But how can you determine _which_ rdma device should be used if and app
>> binds to 127.0.0.1? I think this is busted...
>>
>
> The code just picks the first rdma device available. To me, this is preferable
> than simply disallowing the loopback device from working at all. I personally
> use it all the time, so I don't have to figure out what the ip address is of the
> system that I'm trying to test on.
>
Well then the rdma-cm needs to know which devices support hw loopback.
Cuz on a T3-only system, no hwloop...
Steve.
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