Honestly, I don't know - I haven't looked into the source.  OFED 1.5.2
has a version of ibv_rc_pingpong that's been modified to work with
RoCE; you can pass the gid_index and SL as command-line arguments.
I'm not sure how that's handled at the IB layer, but the source may be
a good place to start.

--
Mike Shuey



On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Jeff Squyres <jsquy...@cisco.com> wrote:
> I thought you mentioned in a prior email that you had gotten one or two other 
> OFED sample applications to work properly.  How are they setting the SL?  Are 
> they not using the RDMA CM?
>
>
> On Mar 1, 2011, at 7:35 AM, Michael Shuey wrote:
>
>> So, since RoCE has no SM, and setting an SL is required to get
>> lossless ethernet on Cisco switches (and possibly others), does this
>> mean that RoCE will never work correctly with OpenMPI on Cisco
>> hardware?
>>
>> --
>> Mike Shuey
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 3:42 AM, Doron Shoham <dor...@mellanox.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Regarding to using a specific SL with RDMA CM, I've checked in the code and 
>>> it seems that RDMA_CM uses the SL from the SA.
>>> So if you want to configure a specific SL, you need to do it via the SM.
>>>
>>> Doron
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Jeff Squyres [mailto:jsquy...@cisco.com]
>>> Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 3:45 PM
>>> To: Michael Shuey
>>> Cc: Open MPI Users , Mike Dubman
>>> Subject: Re: [OMPI users] RoCE (IBoE) & OpenMPI
>>>
>>> On Feb 24, 2011, at 8:00 AM, Michael Shuey wrote:
>>>
>>>> Late yesterday I did have a chance to test the patch Jeff provided
>>>> (against 1.4.3 - testing 1.5.x is on the docket for today).  While it
>>>> works, in that I can specify a gid_index,
>>>
>>> Great!  I'll commit that to the trunk and start the process of moving it to 
>>> the v1.5.x series (I know you haven't tested it yet, but it's essentially 
>>> the same patch, just slightly adjusted for each of the 3 branches).
>>>
>>>> it doesn't do everything
>>>> required - my traffic won't match a lossless CoS on the ethernet
>>>> switch.  Specifying a GID is only half of it; I really need to also
>>>> specify a service level.
>>>
>>> RoCE requires the use of the RDMA CM (I think?), and I didn't think there 
>>> was a way to request a specific SL via the RDMA CM...?  (I could certainly 
>>> be wrong here)
>>>
>>> I think Mellanox will need to follow up with these questions...
>>>
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