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- IP OVER INFINIBAND
- The ib_ipoib driver is an implementation of the IP over InfiniBand
- protocol as specified by the latest Internet-Drafts issued by the
- IETF ipoib working group. It is a "native" implementation in the
- sense of setting the interface type to ARPHRD_INFINIBAND and the
- hardware address length to 20 (earlier proprietary implementations
- masqueraded to the kernel as ethernet interfaces).
- Partitions and P_Keys
- When the IPoIB driver is loaded, it creates one interface for each
- port using the P_Key at index 0. To create an interface with a
- different P_Key, write the desired P_Key into the main interface's
- /sys/class/net/<intf name>/create_child file. For example:
- echo 0x8001 > /sys/class/net/ib0/create_child
- This will create an interface named ib0.8001 with P_Key 0x8001. To
- remove a subinterface, use the "delete_child" file:
- echo 0x8001 > /sys/class/net/ib0/delete_child
- The P_Key for any interface is given by the "pkey" file, and the
- main interface for a subinterface is in "parent."
- Debugging Information
- By compiling the IPoIB driver with CONFIG_INFINIBAND_IPOIB_DEBUG set
- to 'y', tracing messages are compiled into the driver. They are
- turned on by setting the module parameters debug_level and
- mcast_debug_level to 1. These parameters can be controlled at
- runtime through files in /sys/module/ib_ipoib/.
- CONFIG_INFINIBAND_IPOIB_DEBUG also enables files in the debugfs
- virtual filesystem. By mounting this filesystem, for example with
- mount -t debugfs none /sys/kernel/debug
- it is possible to get statistics about multicast groups from the
- files /sys/kernel/debug/ipoib/ib0_mcg and so on.
- The performance impact of this option is negligible, so it
- is safe to enable this option with debug_level set to 0 for normal
- operation.
- CONFIG_INFINIBAND_IPOIB_DEBUG_DATA enables even more debug output in
- the data path when data_debug_level is set to 1. However, even with
- the output disabled, enabling this configuration option will affect
- performance, because it adds tests to the fast path.
- References
- IETF IP over InfiniBand (ipoib) Working Group
- http://ietf.org/html.charters/ipoib-charter.html
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