[lustre-discuss] Does Lustre support RoCE?

Oucharek, Doug S doug.s.oucharek at intel.com
Thu May 11 09:05:57 PDT 2017


The note regarding MOFED 4 not supported by Lustre: I’m working on it. MOFED 4 did not drop support of Lustre, but did make API/behaviour changes which Lustre has not fully adapted to yet.  The ball is in the Lustre community’s court on this one now.

Doug

On May 11, 2017, at 8:47 AM, Simon Guilbault <simon.guilbault at calculquebec.ca<mailto:simon.guilbault at calculquebec.ca>> wrote:

Hi, your lnet.conf look fine, I tested lnet with RoCE V2 a while back with a pair of server using Connectx4 with a single 25Gb interface and RDMA was working with Centos 7.3, stock RHEL OFED and Lustre 2.9. The only settings that I had to use in lustre's config was this one:

options lnet networks=o2ib(ens2)

The performance was about the same (1.9GB/s) without any tuning with the lnet self-test but the CPU utilisation was a lot lower with RDMA than TCP (3% vs 65% of a core).

From my notes I took back then Lustre needed to be recompiled with MLNX OFED 3.4 and MLNX OFED 4 dropped support of Lustre accordings to their release notes.

Ref 965588
https://www.mellanox.com/related-docs/prod_software/Mellanox_OFED_Linux_Release_Notes_4_0-2_0_0_1.pdf
https://www.mellanox.com/related-docs/prod_software/Mellanox_OFED_Linux_Release_Notes_4_0-2_0_2_0.pdf


On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 11:34 AM, Indivar Nair <indivar.nair at techterra.in<mailto:indivar.nair at techterra.in>> wrote:
So I should add something like this in lnet.conf -

options lnet networks=o2ib0(p4p1)

Thats it, right?

Regards,


Indivar Nair

On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 8:39 PM, Dilger, Andreas <andreas.dilger at intel.com<mailto:andreas.dilger at intel.com>> wrote:
If you have RoCE cards and configure them with OFED, and configure Lustre to use o2iblnd then it should use RDMA for those interfaces. The fact that they are RoCE cards is hidden below OFED.

Cheers, Andreas

> On May 11, 2017, at 08:36, Indivar Nair <indivar.nair at techterra.in<mailto:indivar.nair at techterra.in>> wrote:
>
> Hi ...,
>
> I have read in different forums and blogs that Lustre supports RoCE.
> But I cant find any documentation on it.
>
> I have a Lustre setup with 6 OSS and 2 SMB/NFS Gateways.
> They are all interconnected using Mellanox SN2700 100G Switch and Mellanox Connect-X4 100G NICs.
> I have installed the Mellanox OFED Drivers, but I cant find a way to tell Lustre / LNET to use RoCE.
>
> How do I go about?
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Indivar Nair
>
>
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