Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 1 Apr 2012 13:51:05 +1000 | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux hits 20 Gb/s stream to disk levels over Infiniband | From | Joseph Glanville <> |
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On 1 April 2012 05:23, Jeffrey Merkey <jeffmerkey@gmail.com> wrote: > On 3/31/12, David Dillow <dave@thedillows.org> wrote: >> On Sat, 2012-03-31 at 11:28 -0600, Jeffrey Merkey wrote: >>> Made it to 20 Gb/s network packet capture stream to disk performance >>> levels over Infiniband fabrics on Linux. >> >> I'm assuming that the interesting part is the 20 Gbits/s capture? And at >> minimum packet sizes, I'd hope. Linux has been able to stream more than >> 5 GBytes/s (40 Gbits/s) to disk for several years now over SRP. > > Network Capture while being routed and regenerated and piped through > apps at the same time from live network traffic. Most of the other > vendors tout 10 Gb/s stream to disk but only Solera really can do it. > All of them except Niksun are Linux and I think they moved some of > their stuff to it. So hitting 20 Gb/s is a big deal right now. With > Intel's push in IB/Ethernet, this is where the next thing is going. > 3D Torus stuff is totally cool. You can actually store data in the > network itself. Talk about a challenge for Network security.
You can do Infiniband routing in software? This is indeed very interesting. Pinged your contact page. :)
> > The next class of malicious programs may be adapted to live within > fabrics and require new methods to detect and remove them. > >> >>> Will be trying this on 3.0 >>> after I work through the OFED issues (long list). Post the results >>> from 3.0. These are from 2.6.XX series kernels. >> >> You may find it easier to use a recent RedHat or SUSE with an upstream >> kernel. I know that RHEL6 userland is compatible with the upstream >> kernel's Infiniband, and OFED is moving its kernel work to a "backport >> upstream" model for OFED 3.2. >> > > > I've got RH6 done, but OFED was down on the list and SLES was ahead > of.it. No rest for the weary. > > Jeff > >>> Linux f_cking ROCKS!!! >> >> Indeed it does. >> >> > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Joseph.
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