[ofa-general] SA code?
Yicheng Jia
YJia at tmriusa.com
Fri Feb 1 15:07:37 PST 2008
> Are you saying all messages are between adjacent neighbors on the ring ?
Yes. Say I have 6 nodes: A, B, C, D, E, F, then the ring topo will be
A<->B, B<->C, C<->D, D<->E, E<->F, F<->A, and there are totally 6 subnets.
> If it is just A->B, B->C, ..., and never across the ring, then this can
> work but you need an SM instance per subnet.
Do I need a router per subnet as well?
> If you need some router mode, then this is still a work in progress for
> InfiniBand although you might be able to get to a proprietary solution
> in the short term.
What version of OFED will have router mode available?
Thanks!
Yicheng
Hal Rosenstock <hrosenstock at xsigo.com>
02/01/2008 04:45 PM
To
Yicheng Jia <YJia at tmriusa.com>
cc
general at lists.openfabrics.org, Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com>
Subject
Re: [ofa-general] SA code?
Hi Yicheng,
On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 16:38 -0600, Yicheng Jia wrote:
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> Hi Hal,
>
> The only reason is cost down.
Understood.
> The cost of IB switch weighs too much in our product, it seems the
> ring topology is the only way to go. There's no message across the
> ring, all the communication occurs within the ring.
Are you saying all messages are between adjacent neighbors on the ring ?
> Would it cause the performance substantially go down?
If it is just A->B, B->C, ..., and never across the ring, then this can
work but you need an SM instance per subnet.
If you need some router mode, then this is still a work in progress for
InfiniBand although you might be able to get to a proprietary solution
in the short term.
-- Hal
> Thanks!
> Yicheng
>
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> Hal Rosenstock
> <hrosenstock at xsigo.com>
>
> 02/01/2008 04:25 PM
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> Yicheng Jia
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> Roland Dreier
> <rdreier at cisco.com>, general at lists.openfabrics.org
> Subject
> Re: [ofa-general]
> SA code?
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> On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 16:14 -0600, Yicheng Jia wrote:
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> > Hi Roland,
> >
> > Is there SA code available in OFED? I have a IB switch to connect
> all
> > the mellanox HCAs, the SA is running on the switch's firmware. My
> goal
> > is to skip the switch and use ring topology to connect the HCA with
> > each other. Is it doable in OFED?
>
> I don't understand what you're trying to accomplish with this
> topology.
> In IB speak, each HCA <-> HCA link would be a separate subnet. Do you
> intend to forward across your ring ? If so, only some "router" mode
> would allow that with the topology you propose.
>
> -- Hal
>
> > Thanks!
> > Yicheng
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