Infiniband Setup

[zindarato]

I'm currently working on getting Inifiniband drivers set up on my FreeNAS 11 install. I've gone through the process of building all of the drivers (inside of a jail), and I've used kldload to load ipcore.ko, ipoib.ko, mlx.ko, mlx4.ko, mlx4ib.ko, and mlxen.ko. All of them loaded without error. I've also added mlx4_load and mlxen_load to yes in Tuneables.

It seems like all of this worked, but I do not have access to any of the infiniband commands (ibstat, etc). I am very new at this - is there anything else I need to do to get it configured and working?

Thanks!

 

[nightshade00013]

A couple things here. First off you should be using a device that is listed here https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.0R/hardware.html building the drivers the way you are isn't exactly supported in FreeNAS.

Second of all https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/updated-forum-rules-4-11-17.45124/

Please provide the exact build number of the system, which can be found at System ‣ Information, as well as the amount of RAM on the system. If additional hardware information is needed, you will be asked to attach a debug file. Debug files are created with the System ‣ Advanced ‣ Save Debug menu entry.

Hardware information is extremely important when diagnosing problems. This includes:

• motherboard make and model
• CPU make and model
• RAM quantity
• hard drives, quantity, model numbers, and RAID configuration
• hard disk controllers
• network cards

 

[zindarato]

A couple things here. First off you should be using a device that is listed here https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.0R/hardware.html building the drivers the way you are isn't exactly supported in FreeNAS.

Second of all https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/updated-forum-rules-4-11-17.45124/

Thanks! I probably should have added that from the beginning. I couldn't edit my original post, so here is the hardware info on my server:

Server: Dell Poweredge 2950 Gen III
Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5335 @ 2.00GHz
Motherboard: DP246
RAM: 8GB
Hard Drives: 4X1tb Hitachi Ultrastar - HUA721010KLA330 -- Currently in RAID0 until HBA card arrives. Using ZFS2 in Freenas.
Disk Controller: Dell PERC5i (RP272)
Network Cards: Mellanox MHEA28-XTC Dual Port Infiniband card

Build number: FreeNAS-11.0-U2 (e417d8aa5)