Re: Making IB a first class citizen.

2013-08-23 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 8/23/13 2:29 PM, Vijay Singh wrote: We've been running with this change at work for some time and it doesn't seem to be impacting performance at all. We have a statically routed environment though. Also if we really want to optimize for performance wrt routing then IMHO we need to bring bac

Re: Making IB a first class citizen.

2013-08-23 Thread Vijay Singh
We've been running with this change at work for some time and it doesn't seem to be impacting performance at all. We have a statically routed environment though. Also if we really want to optimize for performance wrt routing then IMHO we need to bring back route caching to the tcpcb. Just a thou

Re: Making IB a first class citizen.

2013-08-23 Thread Adrian Chadd
.. should just check to see what impact it has on performance in the general case. that may change the cache behaviour of the ARP / routing table code. -adrian On 23 August 2013 09:50, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > Hello -net. > > This email is about making Infiniband a first class citizen of t

Making IB a first class citizen.

2013-08-23 Thread Alfred Perlstein
Hello -net. This email is about making Infiniband a first class citizen of the FreeBSD kernel. Right now we have one #ifdef OFED in the src tree that makes compiling modules a real challenge: In sys/net/if_llatbl.h the "struct llentry" size changes based on if OFED is compiled in or not, o