From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steve Wise Subject: Re: Socket Direct Protocol: help (2) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:54:31 -0500 Message-ID: <4BC5D727.4090400@opengridcomputing.com> References: <13381_1271060138_o3C8FUH8013968_2977669.1271060085255.SLOX.WebMail.wwwrun@imap.lnl.infn.it> <1246722.1271082830120.SLOX.WebMail.wwwrun@imap.lnl.infn.it> <2EFBCAEF10980645BBCFB605689E08E9047C7402DA@azsmsx506.amr.corp.intel.com> <4BC49E2B.3000804@opengridcomputing.com> <2EFBCAEF10980645BBCFB605689E08E9047C7405A0@azsmsx506.amr.corp.intel.com> <4BC4D22A.6020700@opengridcomputing.com> <2EFBCAEF10980645BBCFB605689E08E9047C7405E9@azsmsx506.amr.corp.intel.com> <7037536.1271235105513.SLOX.WebMail.wwwrun@imap.lnl.infn.it> <4BC5D1D3.3020004@mellanox.co.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4BC5D1D3.3020004-VPRAkNaXOzVS1MOuV/RT9w@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Amir Vadai Cc: Andrea Gozzelino , "Tung, Chien Tin" , "linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "rolandd-FYB4Gu1CFyUAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org" , "peterz-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org" , "pavel-+ZI9xUNit7I@public.gmane.org" , "mingo-X9Un+BFzKDI@public.gmane.org" , Eric B Munson List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org Hey Amir, I don't think this helps because sdp_add_device() will not add rdma devices that fail to create fmr pools. So I guess you could key off of fmr pool failures and set sdp_zcopy_thresh to 0 and allow the device to be used? But what we really need is sdp support for fastreg_mrs as an alternative to fmrs. Steve. Amir Vadai wrote: > Hi, > > FMR are being used only in a special mode called ZCopy. > > You could disable this mode by setting the module paramter > sdp_zcopy_thresh to 0, or by issuing: > # echo 0 > /sys/module/ib_sdp/parameters/sdp_zcopy_thresh > > This means that you won't get the benefits of Zero-copy. > > - Amir > > On 04/14/2010 11:51 AM, Andrea Gozzelino wrote: > >> On Apr 13, 2010 10:22 PM, "Tung, Chien Tin" >> wrote: >> >> >> >>>>>> Chien, does the NE020 support FMRs? I looked at the nes ofed-1.5 >>>>>> code >>>>>> and it appears to do nothing in the map_phys_fmr functions. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> We never implemented map_phys_fmr. Is it relevant to the # of SGEs? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> No, but SDP uses FMRs. I don't think it will run without FMR support. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> Good to know. Thanks. >>> >>> Chien >>> >>> >>> >>> >> Hi Steve and Chien, >> >> I understand that NE020 cards have problem with SDP connected with >> map_phy_fmr (FMR stands for Fast Memory Region). >> Is it possible to solve/fix this point? >> If yes, have you an idea about the time that is necessary to code >> development/build? >> If no, can you suggest me a card that supports SDP protocol? >> >> I work on NE020 cards from February 2010 for an INFN experimental >> proposal, called REDIGO (Read out at 10 Gbits/s), about the data >> acquisition and movement systems. The covergence of storage protocols >> around 10 Gigabits/s Ethernet protocols shows that one way could be the >> Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA). The goals are the investigations of >> latency time, the throughput, the buffer size schemes and finally the >> global event building bandwidth. >> >> Do you know if NE020 cards have problems with librdma (RDMA procedures, >> in general) and / or with MPI versions? >> >> Thank you very much, >> Andrea >> >> Andrea Gozzelino >> >> INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro (LNL) >> Viale dell'Universita' 2 >> I-35020 - Legnaro (PD)- ITALIA >> Tel: +39 049 8068346 >> Fax: +39 049 641925 >> Mail: andrea.gozzelino-PK20h7lG/Rc1GQ1Ptb7lUw@public.gmane.org >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in >> the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> >> > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html