[zeromq-dev] Urgent! Where is the link between ZeroMq and IpoIB

[Krishna Narasimhan]

Hi Jim,
    Thanks a lot for the response. Really glad you took time out to read my
issue completely.

It is really interesting the links you have provided. Good to know that
there was prior attempts at this.

Btw, I dont understand still how ZeroMq is linked to IpOIb. Do you mean to
say that ZeroMq code never changed, but the underlying Socket mechanism
takes care of the decision of normal or (IpoIB sockets) based on the
request and hardware present?

I saw some codes like

 fd_t s = socket (domain_, type_, protocol_);


Is this where the dynamic choice of using IpoIb happens?

I am not sure I explained my question properly.

I understand that IpoIb codes are available in a linux driver code , so I
was looking for references to IpoIb.h

If all my above explanation turned out to be confusing , here goes my last
attempt :

How are Zeromw code and IpoIb.h linked?


On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 10:53 PM, Jim Garlick <garlick at llnl.gov> wrote:

> Hi Krishna,
>
> As far as I know ZeroMQ can only use IPoIB via normal IP sockets.
> Looks like the idea of an RDMA zeromq transport came up in 2011,
> but went nowhere?
>
> http://lists.zeromq.org/pipermail/zeromq-dev/2011-December/014784.html
>
> Another interesting example of adding RDMA support to a project with
> pluggable transports is net/9p (transport for fs/v9fs) in the Linux kernel.
> It might be useful to look at that code and follow its history to
> understand
> the problem better.
>
> http://lwn.net/Articles/301896/
>
> As I recall the orig code in 2008, though functional, didn't deliver a big
> performance win over TCP (for that stack) and introduced new failure modes,
> making it unattractive and frustrating for casual users.  It languished
> for years in a semi-broken state until people at CEA/Bull began working
> on it again in 2012-13.  I'm guessing the second order issues CEA/Bull
> dealt with would be instructive.  Also their Mooshika RDMA abstraction,
> which I think allows for a wireshark tap and testing w/o Infiniband card
> could be interesting.
>
> https://github.com/martinetd/mooshika
>
> Jim
>
> On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 07:38:05PM +0200, Krishna Narasimhan wrote:
> > Hello,
> >         I am a researcher at Frankfurt University and currently working
> on
> > contributing to folks who use ZeroMq at Gsi , Darmstadt. Can anyone guide
> > me on which part of the code links ZeroMq to IPoIB. Because it doesnt
> seem
> > to be linked at code level. Does ZeroMq call some wrapper which directs
> to
> > IPoIb or normal IP?
> >
> > Any help here would be appreciated. this is rather urgent.
> >
> > On the other hand, I am also looking to contribute to including MPI
> (direct
> > RDMA) access for ZeroMq based applications, so anyone with this knowledge
> > will also be helpful. But am not sure this belongs to this thread.
> >
> > Thanks a lot.
> >
> > Regards
> >        Krishna
>
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Regards
       Krishna
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