A small clarification. On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Raghavendra G <raghavendra.hg at gmail.com>wrote: > Hi John, > please find inlined comments. > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:14 AM, John Simmonds <John2.Simmonds at uwe.ac.uk>wrote: > >> Hello people, >> >> >> I am trying to use GlusterFS over Infiniband using ib-verbs. Now so far >> I know about these options: >> >> option transport-type ib-verbs/client # For Infiniband Verbs client >> option transport-type ib-verbs/server # For Infiniband Verbs server >> >> and of course these ones: >> option ib-verbs-work-request-recv-size 1048576 >> option ib-verbs-work-request-recv-count 16 >> option ib-verbs-work-request-send-size 1048576 >> option ib-verbs-work-request-send-count 16 >> >> >> Now what I don't understand is how do you specify a Infiniband host? >> >> What I mean is when using IP you would do this on the server: >> >> option auth.ip.brick1.allow 192.168.* # Allow access to "brick1" volume >> >> and this on the client: >> >> option remote-host 192.168.1.10 >> >> >> That I understand, but Infiniband doesn't work off IP, unless of course >> you enable IP over Infiniband (IPoIB). > > > each server which is using infiniband transport would be listening on a > socket (which is identified by ip:port). Client has to connect to that > address (Ip:port) and once initial handshake (which is related to ib-verbs) > is done, all further communication happens through ib-verbs. > > >> So my questions really are: >> >> 1. Is there a way to specify a Infiniband host other then by IP? > > > No. > > >> >> 2. If you have to use IP is that IPoIB you use? > > > Not necessarily. TCP/IP would also be fine. Since this communication > channel is used only for initial handshake. And since handshake data is > small (when compared to actual data flowing between client and server) this > has no effect on performance. > I meant ethernet would also be fine, since IPoIB is tcp/ip. > > >> >> >> Thanks people, >> >> John Simmonds >> Computer Officer - Linux & Real-time Systems >> University of the West of England >> United Kingdom >> >> >> This email was independently scanned for viruses by McAfee anti-virus >> software and none were found >> _______________________________________________ >> Gluster-users mailing list >> Gluster-users at gluster.org >> http://zresearch.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users >> > > > regards, > -- > Raghavendra G > > -- Raghavendra G -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://zresearch.com/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20081210/7335f481/attachment.htm
