[ofa-general] NFS over RDMA

[Vu Pham]

The easiest steps to have nfsrdma up and running:
Download OFED-1.4.1-rc1 from 
http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-1.4.1/
and build/install nfsrdma. It is running on 2.6.27/26/25 and RHEL 5.2 
default kernels

Or
+ Download kernel 2.6.27 from kernel.org
+ Build the kernel 2.6.27 with IB driver (and other modules ie. 
user_mad, addr_trans, ib_mthca,  mlx4_ib... ), nfs client/server, 
sunrpc... as modules
+ Boot up with new kernel
+ Follow the attached README

NOTE: You can also download and run nfsrdma on latest development kernel 
2.6.29-rc7; however, it does not work on Mellanox ConnectX HCA due to a 
bug on Fast memory registration work request. We are debugging it now

-vu
>
> Hello,
>
> I want to try NFS over RDMA. According to the documentation enclosed
> within the OFED-1.4 release, it should be as simple as setting 
> "nfsrdma=y".
>
> Unfortunately there is no such option. The interactive menu offered by
> './install.pl' does not mention NFS neither.
>
> Is there an updated version of the documentation on how to run NFS over
> RDMA? I have noticed, that it is part of the vanilla Linux kernel but 
> I still did
> not manage to get it up and running.
>
> Many thanks for your advice,
>  Philip
>
> -- 
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