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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
To: Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
	Haakon Bugge <haakon.bugge@oracle.com>,
	Mark Haywood <mark.haywood@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is there a working cache for path record and lids etc for librdmacm?
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 15:33:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201117193329.GH244516@ziepe.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2011170253150.206345@www.lameter.com>

On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 02:57:57AM +0000, Christopher Lameter wrote:
> We have a large number of apps running on the same host that are all
> sending to the same set of hosts. Lots of requests for address resolution
> are going to the SM and for a large set of hosts this can become too much
> for the SM.
> 
> Is there something that can locally cache the results of the SM queries to
> avoid additional requests?
> 
> We have tried IBACM but the address resolution does not work on it. It is
> unable to complete a request for any address resolution and leaves kernel
> threads that never terminate instead.

If it really doesn't work at all any more we should delete it from
rdma-core if nobody is interested to fix it.

Haakon and Mark had stepped up to maintain it a while ago because they
were using it internally, so I'm surprised to hear it is broken.

Jason

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-11-17 19:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-17  2:57 Is there a working cache for path record and lids etc for librdmacm? Christopher Lameter
2020-11-17  8:46 ` Jens Domke
2020-11-17 14:20   ` Christopher Lameter
2020-11-17 19:33 ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2020-11-20 18:05   ` Christopher Lameter
2020-11-20 18:34     ` Håkon Bugge
2020-11-22 12:49       ` Christopher Lameter
2020-11-22 15:50         ` Håkon Bugge
2020-11-22 19:22           ` Christopher Lameter
2020-11-23 12:50             ` Christopher Lameter
2020-11-23 19:01               ` Håkon Bugge
2020-11-24 19:01                 ` Christopher Lameter
2020-11-25  8:10                   ` Honggang LI
2020-11-25 16:43                     ` Christopher Lameter
2020-11-27 14:52                       ` Håkon Bugge
2020-11-30  8:24                         ` Christopher Lameter
2020-12-04 11:17                           ` Håkon Bugge
2020-12-05 11:50                             ` Christoph Lameter
2020-12-07 10:28                             ` Christoph Lameter
2020-12-07 21:08                               ` Mark Haywood
2020-12-08  8:59                                 ` Christoph Lameter

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