[DRBD-user] Sockets Direct Protocol (SDP)

Florian Haas florian at hastexo.com
Thu Oct 25 11:38:42 CEST 2012

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On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Matthew Goulding <matt at dnuk.com> wrote:
> Hi All!,
>
> I have been looking into to using Infiniband with SDP.
>
> Though from what i read SDP is now deprecated and the "ib_sdp" module is no
> longer part of OFED or the kernel.
>
> Ref:
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.network.openfabrics.enterprise/5371
>
> Is there anybody on here using SDP with DRBD that may have more information
> on this?
>
> Seems a real shame as 40Gb SDP Infiniband sounds like a great solution!

FWIW, based on our experience in direct point-to-point IB connections
(no switching involved), DRBD-over-SDP often produced

- little gains (if any) in throughput over IPoIB,
- an actual increase in latency over IPoIB.

The latter is somewhat counterintuitive, but I don't think anyone ever
got to the bottom of it. So if you want to replicate over InfiniBand,
my suggestion is that you just go with IPoIB, and use regular TCP
sockets to replicate over.

Just my two cents, though. Maybe others have additional input. Hope
this is useful.

Cheers,
Florian

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