[ofa-general] Performance of MT25204 versus MT25208
Bart Van Assche
bart.vanassche at gmail.com
Fri Jan 18 00:55:35 PST 2008
> On January 17, 2008 Bart Van Assche wrote:
> >
> > Via ib_rdma_bw and ib_rdma_lat I obtained the following performance
> > data:
> > * peak bandwith 674 MB/s / latency 3.07 microseconds between two
> > uniprocessor systems with MT25204 HCA's.
> > * peak bandwith 935 MB/s / latency 3.36 microseconds between two dual
> > processor systems with MT25208 HCA's.
> >
> > I'm wondering now whether the performance differences are due to the
> > HCA's or due to the motherboard ?
>
On Jan 17, 2008 5:13 PM, Sagi Rotem <Sagir at mellanox.co.il> wrote:
> Did you check that the PCIe slot you are using is x8
The motherboard is an Intel(R) Server Board S5000PAL
(http://www.intel.com/design/servers/boards/s5000pal/), which has both
x4 and x8 slots. I'm not sure the information from lspci can be
trusted, but lspci says it's a x8 slot:
# lspci -vv
...
08:00.0 InfiniBand: Mellanox Technologies MT25204 [InfiniHost III Lx
HCA] (rev a0)
Subsystem: Mellanox Technologies MT25204 [InfiniHost III Lx HCA]
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
Region 0: Memory at b9300000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
Region 2: Memory at b8000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=8M]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
Capabilities: [48] Vital Product Data
Capabilities: [90] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+
Queue=0/5 Enable-
Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000
Capabilities: [84] MSI-X: Enable- Mask- TabSize=32
Vector table: BAR=0 offset=00082000
PBA: BAR=0 offset=00082200
Capabilities: [60] Express Endpoint IRQ 0
Device: Supported: MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, ExtTag-
Device: Latency L0s <64ns, L1 unlimited
Device: AtnBtn- AtnInd- PwrInd-
Device: Errors: Correctable+ Non-Fatal+ Fatal+ Unsupported-
Device: RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop-
Device: MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes
Link: Supported Speed 2.5Gb/s, Width x8, ASPM L0s, Port 8
Link: Latency L0s unlimited, L1 unlimited
Link: ASPM Disabled RCB 64 bytes CommClk- ExtSynch-
Link: Speed 2.5Gb/s, Width x8
...
Bart.
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