[ofa-general] Re: cxgb3 user limitations

[Steve Wise]

Philip Frey1 wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a Chelsio T3. Whenever I do RDMA as normal user, I am severely 
> limited in terms of memory.
> Why is that? Is there a way of using the RNIC with the same privileges 
> as the root but without actually
> being the root?
>
> Could you give me some insight in what the limits of the Chelsio RNIC 
> are? (Max MRs, QPs, PDs etc)
>
> Many thanks and kind regards,
>  Philip 


Try running ibv_devinfo -v to see driver/hw limits.

However, how are you limited?  Are you getting failures registering 
memory?  Did you try setting your ulimit -l to unlimited or at least as 
large as the memory region you want to register?


Steve.