Re: Is SRP over RoCE possible?

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Thanks, I'll give it a whirl.

Robert LeBlanc
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Robert LeBlanc
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On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 11:45 AM, Bart Van Assche
<Bart.VanAssche@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-02-14 at 11:24 -0700, Robert LeBlanc wrote:
>> I'm trying to get SRP working on my ConnectX-4-LX cards to see if it
>> has the same problem as iSER does. When I try to connect the initiator
>> to the target I get that opensm is not running. I tried all the umad
>> devices without any luck. I found that someone had to modify the
>> source to get it to work with RDMACM [0] and then another thread that
>> specified that an option had to be passed to the ib_srpt module, but I
>> don't see that option in modinfo and the Readme mentioned in the
>> thread is not there[1]. If SRP should work, can someone help me figure
>> out what I'm doing wrong here.
>
> Hello Robert,
>
> This is not yet possible with the upstream SRP drivers. I'm waiting for
> the standardization of SRP over RoCE to add such support to the upstream
> SRP drivers. But this is already possible today with the following
> drivers:
> - At the initiator side: https://github.com/bvanassche/ib_srp-backport
> - At the target side: the SCST core + the SCST ib_srpt target driver and
>   something like the following in /etc/modprobe.d/ib_srpt.conf:
>   options ib_srpt rdma_cm_port=5000
> - Since neither ibsrpdm nor srp_daemon support SRP over RoCE, login has
>   to be performed by writing a login string into
>   /sys/class/infiniband_srp/*/add_target. The format of that login string
>   is id_ext=$ioc_guid,ioc_guid=$ioc_guid,dest=$dest where ioc_guid is the
>   following parameter from the target system:
>   /sys/module/ib_srpt/parameters/srpt_service_guid
>   and where dest is [<IPv4 address>|<IPv6 address>]:<SRP RDMA/CM port number>
>
> BTW, I have used these drivers to test and improve the SoftRoCE driver.
>
> Bart.
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