Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2015 23:39:50 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> To: Jason Bacon <jwbacon@tds.net> Cc: freebsd-infiniband@FreeBSD.org, Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org>, Jeff Roberson <jroberson@jroberson.net>, Benno Rice <benno@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Enable OFED/Infiniband support in 11.0-RELEASE by default? Message-ID: <271AEA24-FEF4-43D8-B1A3-0D2F28A3D8E1@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <55C4FCC2.9060704@tds.net> References: <30977F3A-59D1-4CA4-BCF6-9062A04CFF44@gmail.com> <55C4FCC2.9060704@tds.net>
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On Aug 7, 2015, at 11:45, Jason Bacon <jwbacon@tds.net> wrote: >=20 > I've admittedly been out of action on this for a while, but last time = I checked, the IB network stack could be loaded as a kernel module, but = a build world was still required to add IB support to userland tools. = If this is no longer the case, please excuse my spam. *part* of it can be loaded as a kld. There are other pieces I had that = hadn=92t been committed to head, which were required to make it into a = loadable module. =85 > I *will* get back to testing this soon, as I'm in the midst of = building a new 2,000-core HPC cluster and I have servers available to = experiment with. I'm eager to see what kind of performance we can get = from a FreeBSD file server with ZFS and FDR IB. There were some interesting =93issues=94 that were discovered when = upgrading the IB stack. Most of them have been fixed, but some may be = outstanding; you might not run into them if you=92re unless you=92re = doing interop testing with other [Linux] IB machines. Cheers, -NGie=
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