what is your command line and setup? (ofed version, distro) This is what was just measured w/ fdr on haswell with v1.8.8 and mxm and UD
+ mpirun -np 2 -bind-to core -display-map -mca rmaps_base_mapping_policy dist:span -x MXM_RDMA_PORTS=mlx5_3:1 -mca rmaps_dist_device mlx5_3:1 -x MXM_TLS=self,shm,ud osu_latency Data for JOB [65499,1] offset 0 ======================== JOB MAP ======================== Data for node: clx-orion-001 Num slots: 28 Max slots: 0 Num procs: 1 Process OMPI jobid: [65499,1] App: 0 Process rank: 0 Data for node: clx-orion-002 Num slots: 28 Max slots: 0 Num procs: 1 Process OMPI jobid: [65499,1] App: 0 Process rank: 1 ============================================================= # OSU MPI Latency Test v4.4.1 # Size Latency (us) 0 1.18 1 1.16 2 1.19 4 1.20 8 1.19 16 1.19 32 1.21 64 1.27 and w/ ob1, openib btl: mpirun -np 2 -bind-to core -display-map -mca rmaps_base_mapping_policy dist:span -mca rmaps_dist_device mlx5_3:1 -mca btl_if_include mlx5_3:1 -mca pml ob1 -mca btl openib,self osu_latency # OSU MPI Latency Test v4.4.1 # Size Latency (us) 0 1.13 1 1.17 2 1.17 4 1.17 8 1.22 16 1.23 32 1.25 64 1.28 On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 6:49 PM, Dave Love <d.l...@liverpool.ac.uk> wrote: > I've just compared IB p2p latency between version 1.6.5 and 1.8.8. I'm > surprised to find that 1.8 is rather worse, as below. Assuming that's > not expected, are there any suggestions for debugging it? > > This is with FDR Mellanox, between two Sandybridge nodes on the same > blade chassis switch. The results are similar for IMB pingpong and > osu_latency, and reproducible. I'm running both cases the same way as > far as I can tell (e.g. core binding with 1.6 and not turning it off > with 1.8) just rebuilding the test against between OMPI versions. > > The initial osu_latency figures for 1.6 are: > > # OSU MPI Latency Test v5.0 > # Size Latency (us) > 0 1.16 > 1 1.24 > 2 1.23 > 4 1.23 > 8 1.26 > 16 1.27 > 32 1.30 > 64 1.36 > > and for 1.8: > > # OSU MPI Latency Test v5.0 > # Size Latency (us) > 0 1.48 > 1 1.46 > 2 1.42 > 4 1.43 > 8 1.46 > 16 1.47 > 32 1.48 > 64 1.54 > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > Subscription: http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users > Link to this post: > http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/users/2015/09/27712.php > -- Kind Regards, M.