On 10/27/2014 12:03 PM, Kilian Cavalotti wrote:
Hi Jörg,
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 3:56 AM, Jörg Saßmannshausen
<j.sassmannshau...@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
I got some older dual Mellanox Technologies MT23108 cards (8.5 Gb/sec (4X))
and currently I am only using one of the two ports on them.
I was wondering, is it possible with InfiniBand to utilise the second port in
such a way that I can increase the bandwith of the network (and lower the
latency maybe)?
Last time I checked, the Linux bonding driver didn't allow to bond IB
interfaces to increase throughput. I'd be happy to hear that this
changed, but I think only redundancy modes (such as active-backup)
were possible.
Now, Open MPI can take advantage of multiple, independent ports
connected to the same fabric: see
http://www.open-mpi.org/faq/?category=openfabrics#ofa-port-wireup for
details.
Cheers,
This makes sense. Since IB operates mostly in userspace, I would expect
setting up IB like this to done by the applications, not the operating
system. Since TCP/IP network is mostly handled by the kernel, it would
make sense that IPoIB would be configured by the kernel, though. Feel
free to correct me if this logic is wrong.
You could increase the bandwidth, but not the latency. If anything, the
latency might go up as some additional work will need to be done to
coordinate the data going over the two different connections.
--
Prentice
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