[ofa-general] Re: minutes from socket over RDMA discussion at workshop

[Rick Jones]

Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>Quoting Rick Jones <rick.jones2 at hp.com>:
>>Subject: Re: minutes from socket over RDMA discussion at workshop
>>
>>
>>>>The OFED is whatever is in RHEL5 - someone said that might be 1.1.
>>>
>>>
>>>So you are not comparing apples to apples:
>>>SPD uses buffers of 64K, IPoIB datagram mode - 2K.
>>
>>I won't dispute that, I'll just say it is what people running RHEL5 will 
>>see out of the box.
> 
> 
> OK but when some people say "IPoIB gives same BW as SDP" they mean 1.2.

Fair enough.  The joy of moving targets :)

>>>Report the problem, people'll try to help.
>>
>>I thought I had, albeit perhaps too tangentially.  Anyway, I'm running on a 
>>Debian 4.0 with a 2.6.21.1 kernel on it (from a kernel.org tar) now and 
>>will try a contemporary 1.2 on that.  It seems there is already some OFED 
>>stuff in the 2.6.21.1 kernel, so if there are suggestions on how to remove 
>>that for a successful 1.2 install, or other suggestions on how to have a 
>>successful 1.2 install on 2.6.21.1 I'm all ears.  When it comes to 
>>manipulating bits here I'm still on the very steep part of the learning 
>>curve.
> 
> 
> OFED should really do that for you automatically,
> and will even try to put it all back on uninstall.

I'll likely be trying later this afternoon (US Pacific time).

rick jones