[ewg] Problem with NFS/RDMA on CentOS 7 with OFED-MIC-3.5-2-rc1

[Cheng, Wendy]

Did you mount the NFS share on MIC or on host ? Be aware that 3.3 MPSS/OFED does not support NFS/RDMA yet; that is, mounting NFS/RDMA on MIC is NOT supported at this moment.  

-- Wendy  

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> bounces at lists.openfabrics.org] On Behalf Of Steffen Müthing
> Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2014 2:39 AM
> To: ewg at lists.openfabrics.org
> Subject: [ewg] Problem with NFS/RDMA on CentOS 7 with OFED-MIC-3.5-2-
> rc1
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to get the new 3.3 MPSS stack to work together with OFED-MIC-
> 3.5-2-rc1 on CentOS 7, but I've run into a problem with NFS/RDMA: While I
> can mount file systems and traverse them, I cannot access any files larger
> than about 800 bytes. Trying to cat such a file results in errors like
> this:
> 
> cat: gcc.lua: Input/output error
> 
> or, when copying:
> 
> [root at node01 files]# cp test.txt /tmp
> cp: error reading 'test.txt': Input/output error
> cp: failed to extend '/tmp/test.txt': Input/output error
> [root at node01 files]#
> 
> At the same time, trying to write a file that is larger than 800 bytes to a server
> running CentOS 7 tends to freeze that server, while writing to a CentOS 6.5
> server works just fine (I just can't access the data afterwards).
> 
> On the other hand, exporting an NFS share on a CentOS 7 server and
> mounting it on a CentOS 6.5 client works without any problem.
> 
> We are using Mellanox ConnectX-3 VPI adapters (mlx_4 driver) and are
> currently running kernel version 3.10.0-123.4.4.el7.x86_64. Does someone
> have an idea of what might be going wrong here?
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Steffen Müthing
> 
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