Appendix A - InfiniBand Client Configuration
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The output is line item of each target port of SRP target. Pick the line with the dgid matching your
target GUID and then echo it to the /sys/class/infiniband_srp/srp-mlx4_0-1/
add_target.
InfiniBand Gateway Setup
You can verify the link status of the IB ports for the Violin Memory Gateway. To do so, open a Linux
shell window and enter the ibstatus command, as shown in the following example.
my-ib-srv2 [my-ib-cluster1: master] (config) # ibstatus
Infiniband device 'mlx4_0' port 1 status:
default gid: fe80:0000:0000:0000:0002:c903:004e:6ddd
base lid: 0x6
sm lid: 0x2
state: 4: ACTIVE
phys state: 5: LinkUp
rate: 40 Gb/sec (4X QDR)
link_layer: InfiniBand
Infiniband device 'mlx4_0' port 2 status:
default gid: fe80:0000:0000:0000:0002:c903:004e:6dde
base lid: 0x0
sm lid: 0x0
state: 1: DOWN
phys state: 2: Polling
rate: 70 Gb/sec (4X)
link_layer: InfiniBand
Infiniband device 'mlx4_1' port 1 status:
default gid: fe80:0000:0000:0000:0002:c903:004e:719d
base lid: 0x5
sm lid: 0x2
state: 4: ACTIVE
phys state: 5: LinkUp
rate: 40 Gb/sec (4X QDR)
link_layer: InfiniBand
Infiniband device 'mlx4_1' port 2 status:
default gid: fe80:0000:0000:0000:0002:c903:004e:719e
base lid: 0x0
sm lid: 0x0
state: 1: DOWN
phys state: 2: Polling
rate: 70 Gb/sec (4X)
link_layer: InfiniBand