From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 24 22:16:10 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 28E9597 for ; Tue, 24 Dec 2013 22:16:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from btw.pki2.com (btw.pki2.com [IPv6:2001:470:a:6fd::2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E832D14B7 for ; Tue, 24 Dec 2013 22:16:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by btw.pki2.com (8.14.7/8.14.5) with ESMTP id rBOMFwdJ078651; Tue, 24 Dec 2013 14:15:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@pki2.com) Subject: Re: InfiniBand in 10.0? From: Dennis Glatting To: iamatt In-Reply-To: References: <1387915155.71651.118.camel@btw.pki2.com> <1387920273.71651.119.camel@btw.pki2.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 14:15:58 -0800 Message-ID: <1387923358.71651.122.camel@btw.pki2.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-yoursite-MailScanner-Information: Dennis Glatting X-yoursite-MailScanner-ID: rBOMFwdJ078651 X-yoursite-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: freebsd@pki2.com Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 22:16:10 -0000 On Tue, 2013-12-24 at 15:46 -0600, iamatt wrote: > A good batch of mellanox cables. Melanic had a bad run of FDR early > in the year. Most FDR centers have been plagued with them. Even the > back end of our DDN lustres has had issues. They typically do not > just fail but downgrade to QDR rate. > Ah. I though they were stripping the technology InfinBand. > On Dec 24, 2013 3:24 PM, "Dennis Glatting" wrote: > On Tue, 2013-12-24 at 14:43 -0600, iamatt wrote: > > Not sure if I would even bother with running IB on BSD. We > have enough > > problems just getting things stable with Linux and mellanox > ofed . Add all > > of the documented build problems with the mellanox FDR > cables and recalls > > and you are guaranteed a nightmare. TACC, navy, and almost > every center I > > am aware of has replaced all or most or some of their FDR, > including us. > > > > Replaced them with what? > > > > As far as cards go it's all mellanox. Qlogic lost the game, > still dealing > > with a 12800 qlogic switch which is a total nightmare. > Stick with > > mellanox. Different vendors used to make their own fabric > managers in the > > early time of IB but now its best to stick with open ibd. > > > > FreeBSD and IB gives me the chills just thinking about it. > > On Dec 24, 2013 1:59 PM, "Dennis Glatting" > wrote: > > > > > > > > This site appears dated: > > > > > > https://wiki.freebsd.org/InfiniBand > > > > > > I have a couple of questions. > > > > > > 1) Under 10.0-RC2, is InfiniBand a part of GENERIC or did > I still have > > > to modify the conf as specified in the wiki? I don't see > any of the > > > options from the wiki in 10.0-RC2 GENERIC. > > > > > > 2) Any recommendation on cards? What works, what doesn't? > > > > > > 3) What things to watch out for? > > > > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > > > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >