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Connect up to your hosts and switches. If you have one blade enclosure and a front node that only connection you need to do is between the IB switch in the enclosure and the front node.
See Installing Mellanox InfiniBand Driver on RHEL 6.5
Each infiniband network requires a subnet manager. Typicallt you run the OFED opensm subnet manager on the front node or you may chose to run it on one of your blades.
In you use Mellanox drivers then Infiniband kernel modules are loaded automatically. If not, you should adding them to /etc/modules so that they are automatically loaded on machine bootup. You will need to include the hardware specific modules and the protocol modules.
/etc/modules:
# Hardware drivers # Choose the apropriate modules from # /lib/modules/<kernel-version>/updates/kernel/drivers/infiniband/hw # #mlx4_ib # Mellanox ConnectX cards #ib_mthca # some mellanox cards #iw_cxgb3 # Chelsio T3 cards #iw_nes # NetEffect cards # # Protocol modules # Common modules rdma_ucm ib_umad ib_uverbs # IP over IB ib_ipoib # scsi over IB ib_srp # IB SDP protocol ib_sdp
If you are going to use the opensm suetnet manager, edit /etc/default/opensm and add the port GUIDs of the interfaces on which you wish to start opensm.
You can find the port GUIDs of your cards with the ibstat -p command:
# ibstat -p
0x0002c9030002fb05
0x0002c9030002fb06
/etc/default/opensm:
PORTS="0x0002c9030002fb05 0x0002c9030002fb06"
Note if you want to start opensm on all ports you can use the PORTS="ALL" keyword.
Start opensm:
#/etc/init.d/opensm start
If opensm has started correctly you should see SUBNET UP messages in the opensm logfile (/var/log/opensm.<PORTID>.log).
Mar 04 14:56:06 600685 [4580A960] 0x02 -> SUBNET UP
Note that you can start opensm on multiple nodes; one node will be the active subnet manager and the others will put themselves into standby.
You can now check the status of the local IB link with the ibstat command. Connected links should be in the "LinkUp" state. The following output is from a dual ported card, only one of which (port1) is connected.
# ibstat
CA 'mlx4_0'
CA type: MT25418
Number of ports: 2
Firmware version: 2.3.0
Hardware version: a0
Node GUID: 0x0002c9030002fb04
System image GUID: 0x0002c9030002fb07
Port 1:
State: Active
Physical state: LinkUp
Rate: 20
Base lid: 2
LMC: 0
SM lid: 1
Capability mask: 0x02510868
Port GUID: 0x0002c9030002fb05
Port 2:
State: Down
Physical state: Polling
Rate: 10
Base lid: 0
LMC: 0
SM lid: 0
Capability mask: 0x02510868
Port GUID: 0x0002c9030002fb06
Once the host is connected to the infiniband network you can check the health of all of the other network components with the ibhosts, ibswitches and iblinkinfo commands.
Command ibhosts displays all of the hosts visible on the network.
# ibhosts
Ca : 0x0008f1040399d3d0 ports 2 "Voltaire HCA400Ex-D"
Ca : 0x0008f1040399d370 ports 2 "Voltaire HCA400Ex-D"
Ca : 0x0008f1040399d3fc ports 2 "Voltaire HCA400Ex-D"
Ca : 0x0008f1040399d3f4 ports 2 "Voltaire HCA400Ex-D"
Ca : 0x0002c9030002faf4 ports 2 "MT25408 ConnectX Mellanox Technologies"
Ca : 0x0002c9030002fc0c ports 2 "MT25408 ConnectX Mellanox Technologies"
Ca : 0x0002c9030002fc10 ports 2 "MT25408 ConnectX Mellanox Technologies"
ibswitches will display all of the switches in the network.
# ibswitches
Switch : 0x0008f104004121fa ports 24 "ISR9024D-M Voltaire" enhanced port 0 lid 1 lmc 0
iblinkinfo will show the status and speed of all of the links in the network.
#iblinkinfo.pl
Switch 0x0008f104004121fa ISR9024D-M Voltaire:
1 1[ ] ==( 4X 5.0 Gbps Active / LinkUp)==> 2 1[ ] "MT25408 ConnectX Mellanox Technologies" ( )
1 2[ ] ==( 4X 5.0 Gbps Active / LinkUp)==> 13 1[ ] "MT25408 ConnectX Mellanox Technologies" ( )
1 3[ ] ==( 4X 5.0 Gbps Active / LinkUp)==> 4 1[ ] "MT25408 ConnectX Mellanox Technologies" ( )
1 4[ ] ==( 4X 5.0 Gbps Active / LinkUp)==> 26 1[ ] "MT25408 ConnectX Mellanox Technologies" ( )
1 5[ ] ==( 4X 5.0 Gbps Active / LinkUp)==> 27 1[ ] "MT25408 ConnectX Mellanox Technologies" ( )
1 6[ ] ==( 4X 5.0 Gbps Active / LinkUp)==> 24 1[ ] "MT25408 ConnectX Mellanox Technologies" ( )
1 7[ ] ==( 4X 5.0 Gbps Active / LinkUp)==> 28 1[ ] "MT25408 ConnectX Mellanox Technologies" ( )
1 8[ ] ==( 4X 5.0 Gbps Active / LinkUp)==> 25 1[ ] "MT25408 ConnectX Mellanox Technologies" ( )
1 9[ ] ==( 4X 5.0 Gbps Active / LinkUp)==> 31 1[ ] "MT25408 ConnectX Mellanox Technologies" ( )
1 10[ ] ==( 4X 5.0 Gbps Active / LinkUp)==> 32 1[ ] "MT25408 ConnectX Mellanox Technologies" ( )
1 11[ ] ==( 4X 5.0 Gbps Active / LinkUp)==> 33 1[ ] "MT25408 ConnectX Mellanox Technologies" ( )
1 12[ ] ==( 4X 5.0 Gbps Active / LinkUp)==> 29 1[ ] "MT25408 ConnectX Mellanox Technologies" ( )
1 13[ ] ==( 4X 5.0 Gbps Active / LinkUp)==> 30 1[ ] "MT25408 ConnectX Mellanox Technologies" ( )
14[ ] ==( 4X 2.5 Gbps Down / Polling)==> [ ] "" ( )
1 15[ ] ==( 4X 5.0 Gbps Active / LinkUp)==> 3 1[ ] "Voltaire HCA400Ex-D" ( )
1 16[ ] ==( 4X 5.0 Gbps Active / LinkUp)==> 10 1[ ] "Voltaire HCA400Ex-D" ( )
17[ ] ==( 4X 2.5 Gbps Down / Polling)==> [ ] "" ( )
18[ ] ==( 4X 2.5 Gbps Down / Polling)==> [ ] "" ( )
1 19[ ] ==( 4X 5.0 Gbps Active / LinkUp)==> 7 2[ ] "Voltaire HCA400Ex-D" ( )
1 20[ ] ==( 4X 5.0 Gbps Active / LinkUp)==> 6 2[ ] "Voltaire HCA400Ex-D" ( )
1 21[ ] ==( 4X 5.0 Gbps Active / LinkUp)==> 5 2[ ] "Voltaire HCA400Ex-D" ( )
1 22[ ] ==( 4X 5.0 Gbps Active / LinkUp)==> 21 1[ ] "Voltaire HCA400Ex-D" ( )
1 23[ ] ==( 4X 5.0 Gbps Active / LinkUp)==> 9 2[ ] "Voltaire HCA400Ex-D" ( )
1 24[ ] ==( 4X 5.0 Gbps Active / LinkUp)==> 8 1[ ] "Voltaire HCA400Ex-D" ( )
ibping is an infiniband equivalent to the icmp ping command. Choose a node on the fabric and run a ibping server:
#ibping -S
Choose another node on your network, and then ping the port GUID of the server. (ibstat on the server will list the port GUID).
#ibping -G 0x0002c9030002fc1d
Pong from test.example.com (Lid 13): time 0.072 ms
Pong from test.example.com (Lid 13): time 0.043 ms
Pong from test.example.com (Lid 13): time 0.045 ms
Pong from test.example.com (Lid 13): time 0.045 ms
You can test the latency and bandwidth of a link with the ib_rdma_lat commands.
To test the latency, start the server on a node:
#ib_rdma_lat
and then start a client on another node, giving it the hostname of the server.
#ib_rdma_lat hostname-of-server
local address: LID 0x0d QPN 0x18004a PSN 0xca58c4 RKey 0xda002824 VAddr 0x00000000509001
remote address: LID 0x02 QPN 0x7c004a PSN 0x4b4eba RKey 0x82002466 VAddr 0x00000000509001
Latency typical: 1.15193 usec
Latency best : 1.13094 usec
Latency worst : 5.48519 usec
You can test the bandwith of the link using the ib_rdma_bw command.
#ib_rdma_bw
and then start a client on another node, giving it the hostname of the server.
#ib_rdma_bw hostname-of-server
855: | port=18515 | ib_port=1 | size=65536 | tx_depth=100 | iters=1000 | duplex=0 | cma=0 |
855: Local address: LID 0x0d, QPN 0x1c004a, PSN 0xbf60dd RKey 0xde002824 VAddr 0x002aea4092b000
855: Remote address: LID 0x02, QPN 0x004a, PSN 0xaad03c, RKey 0x86002466 VAddr 0x002b8a4e191000
855: Bandwidth peak (#0 to #955): 1486.85 MB/sec
855: Bandwidth average: 1486.47 MB/sec
855: Service Demand peak (#0 to #955): 1970 cycles/KB
855: Service Demand Avg : 1971 cycles/KB
The perftest package contains a number of other similar benchmarking programs to test various aspects of your network.
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