On 07/16/2013 07:29 AM, Pierre-Francois Laquerre wrote: > On 07/16/2013 08:48 AM, Jon Tegner wrote: >> Which of these two releases would work "best" using RDMA? > > I haven't used RDMA myself, but from what I saw on irc, I would stick > to 3.3.x: My understanding is that the same RDMA issues exist in 3.3. > > 16:03 < jclift> RDMA on 3.4 isn't properly working. :( > 16:04 < dbruhn> what's not working properly? > 16:05 < dbruhn> jclift, I thought there was a ton of effort going into > 3.4 for IB/RDMA > 16:05 < jclift> dbruhn: Well, I kept on hitting basic issues when > trying out distributed+replicated setups. > 16:05 < jclift> dbruhn: (With RDMA ) > 16:05 < jclift> dbruhn: Yeah, there's been a large amount of code > improvements > 16:06 < jclift> dbruhn: However, we've hit several bugs with rdma > stuff when testing, even though the tcp side seemed to not have issues > at the same point > 16:07 < jclift> dbruhn: So, the thought process was pretty much "k, > lets get 3.4.0 out the door so non-rdma users have some goodness, and > we'll keep on working on rdma for (hopefully) 3.4.1" > 16:07 < dbruhn> jclift, so what is needed for this to move past it? > 16:08 < jclift> dbruhn: There are a couple of points to it. Note, this > is based on my opinion atm... :) > 16:08 < jclift> dbruhn: Firstly, we need to get the Gluster Test > Framework updated so it can test RDMA stuff. > 16:09 < jclift> dbruhn: That's in progress, but is kind of blocked by > an upstream Linux kernel bug, that kernel panics in the fuse module. > Niels has a proposed patch to fix it: > 16:09 < jclift> dbruhn: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/15/203 > (this is from 2013-Jul-16) > > Pierre-Francois > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
