ofed for debian wheezy ?? newbe here ! :-(

Hello there,

I’ve purchased and installed a couple of these

InfiniBand: Mellanox Technologies MT25418 [ConnectX VPI PCIe 2.0 2.5GT/s - IB DDR / 10GigE] (rev a0)

So far after installing the default packages in debian wheeze they seem to be running ok .

ibstatus

Infiniband device ‘mlx4_0’ port 1 status:

default gid: fe80:0000:0000:0000:001a:4bff:ff0c:d1f1

base lid: 0x0

sm lid: 0x0

state: 1: DOWN

phys state: 2: Polling

rate: 10 Gb/sec (4X)

Infiniband device ‘mlx4_0’ port 2 status:

default gid: fe80:0000:0000:0000:001a:4bff:ff0c:d1f2

base lid: 0x1

sm lid: 0x1

state: 4: ACTIVE

phys state: 5: LinkUp

rate: 20 Gb/sec (4X DDR)


ibstat

CA ‘mlx4_0’

CA type: MT25418

Number of ports: 2

Firmware version: 2.6.0

Hardware version: a0

Node GUID: 0x001a4bffff0cd1f0

System image GUID: 0x001a4bffff0cd1f3

Port 1:

State: Down

Physical state: Polling

Rate: 10

Base lid: 0

LMC: 0

SM lid: 0

Capability mask: 0x02510868

Port GUID: 0x001a4bffff0cd1f1

Port 2:

State: Active

Physical state: LinkUp

Rate: 20

Base lid: 1

LMC: 0

SM lid: 1

Capability mask: 0x0251086a

Port GUID: 0x001a4bffff0cd1f2


I seem to be running firmware 2.6.0 … Is it Obsolete? Do I need to upgrade.


What version of OFED for debian wheezy do I need to download from OpenFabrics.org OR Mellanox ??

There Seem to be a zillion Versions.

I’ ve installed opensm from debian wheezy repo

libopensm2 3.2.6-20090317-2.1

opensm 3.2.6-20090317-2.1

Plus a few other packages required in debian.

Will the ofed dist from openfabrics conflict with the debian onces ??

Will the ofer dist will create and install .debs ??

Sorry for this but I am indeed very new to inifiniband stuff …

Cheers and thanks in advance

grharry

Regarding the firmware version I do not know, you should check if there are newer versions for your HCA and update it to get the full benefits or RDMA and/or SRVio.

But I have tried installing the Mellanox OFED stack (Ubuntu version) on Debian 7.1 (wheezy), but I do not get it to compile correctly as there are redeclarations starting with “TCA_CODEL_UNSPEC” etc.

So you can either rebuild the OS driver following those instructions:

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or use the drivers that come with Debian 7.1. Performance is sub-par with the default drivers, regardless of the firmware used.

It would be nice if Mellanox would provide updated drivers also for Debian :-)

Hi Thomas, Harry,

I don’t think that Dabian is a real plan. i know of many people that have done it independently (like the blog you have).

Your suggestion of using the modules that ships with Debian is probably the best way going forward.

As for the FW,… yes, 2.6.0 is old. run the command ibv_devinfo and based on the "board_id: find what is the latest FW on this page Firmware for ConnectX®