[lustre-discuss] Lustre and OFED

[Ben Evans]

Eli, just to clarify are you talking about using the in-kernel OFED vs. a vendor (Mellanox) OFED, or are you talking about using the ConnectX-3 hardware in IPoIB mode and just using it as a faster Ethernet?

-Ben Evans

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Date: Thursday, July 27, 2017 at 4:55 PM
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Subject: [lustre-discuss] Lustre and OFED

Hi all,

How 'needed' is OFED for Lustre? In the LUG talks it is mentioned every once in a while and that got me thinking a bit.

What things are gained by installing OFED? Performance? Accurate traffic reports?

Currently I am using a lustre system without OFED but our IB hardware is from the FDR generation so not bleeding edge and probably doesn't need OFED because of that....

Thanks,
Eli

Tech specs:
Servers: CentOS 6.8 + Lustre 2.8 (kernel from Lustre RPMs)
Clients: Debian + kernel 4.2 + Lustre 2.8
IB: ConnectX-3 FDR
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