[Users] maybe a RDMAoE Howto?

[Charles Williams]

Kevin,

I am currently awaiting delivery of multiple R&D servers to be used for
just such projects. I can earmark 2 of those for development and testing
for RXE once they get here.

The only problem I have is man power ATM. I am trying to get approval
for at least 1 more Tech but can't imagine that will happen inside the
next 4 to 5 months time.

If I can free up a bit of time I will try and get started on this myself
once the servers get here.

If there are any further questions I'll be sure and get in touch.

Thanks,
chuck

On Mi, 2015-06-10 at 12:17 -0500, Kevin J Moran wrote:
> Chuck,
> 
> There are a few options.
> 
>         1) Easiest path, change out your NIC's for an appropriate RDMA
>         enabled NIC (RNic) and run hardware based RoCE. This may
>         include needing to change OS since I am not 100% sure on where
>         the various vendors stand on Debian support.
>         2) More adventourous option, SoftRoCE or RXE. This option will
>         work better in time since the SoftRXE distribution is under
>         new development and we are getting close to a new release.  At
>         the Open Fabrics Workshop last March there was a presentation
>         that covered this project
>         (https://www.openfabrics.org/images/eventpresos/workshops2015/DevWorkshop/Tuesday/tuesday_14.pdf).  
>         
>         If you would like to participate in the testing of this new
>         repository there is a wiki page on the community git
>         repository
>         (https://github.com/SoftRoCE/rxe-dev/wiki/rxe-dev:-Home) that
>         describes how to get the latest development code running.
>         This is currently running on Ubuntu, Redhat/Centos, and Fedora
>         but we do not have a dedicated Debian effort.
>         
>         We welcome all "testers" during this current phase but stress
>         that we are in the development phase and this distribution is
>         subject to change regularly.  We also welcome any issues found
>         to be logged with the appropriate amount of detail to the
>         github issues section of the community repo
>         (https://github.com/SoftRoCE/rxe-dev/issues).
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Kevin J. Moran
> 
> On 6/10/15 11:11 AM, Charles Williams wrote:
> 
> > hey all,
> > 
> > new to the list and have a question.
> > 
> > We currently have 2 servers that we would like to connect using RDMAoE.
> > These servers are running Debian Wheezy with dual 10G intel NICs each.
> > 
> > I found information here http://www.systemfabricworks.com/downloads/roce
> > telling me to download here http://198.171.48.62/pub/OFED-1.5.2-rxe.tgz
> > 
> > Unfortunately the package is a bunch of source RPMs and of little to no
> > use unless I would enjoy torturing myself by plucking apart the .spec
> > file to generate a DEBIAN directory per hand for each package.
> > 
> > After searching for another day I stumbled across
> > https://www.openfabrics.org/downloads and no information how to get the
> > rxe package/options enabled, and
> > https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-ofed which seems to be woefully
> > out of date.
> > 
> > Does anyone have ANY actual information on RDMAoE and maybe, just maybe,
> > an actual howto on compiling for it. Generating DEBs once I know what
> > I'm doing will not be to hard.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Chuck
> > 
> > 
> > unfortunately
> > 
> > 
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