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Feature #7659

Resolved

Important

Xin Li

New

Yes

n/a

Description

Hi,

Any way to include Mellanox CoonectX-4 40Gb support in FreeNAS 9.3/10?

History

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#1 Updated by Josh Paetzel about 6 years ago

Status changed from Unscreened to Screened

The needed drivers are FreeBSD 10 only right now. So for the moment this is a FreeNAS 10 thing.

#2 Updated by Jordan Hubbard about 6 years ago

Category set to 76
Assignee set to Xin Li
Target version changed from 49 to 134

Let's put this in M3 then. Just in case we want to do it.

#3 Updated by Josh Paetzel about 6 years ago

Target version changed from 134 to 49

I think you get it for free by switching to FreeBSD 10.x

#4 Updated by Josh Paetzel about 6 years ago

Status changed from Screened to Unscreened

#5 Updated by Jordan Hubbard about 6 years ago

Target version changed from 49 to 10.0-M1

Then by that logic, this will be present in M1. Katsuragawa elec driver download for windows. Let's not overuse FUTURE - it becomes a dumping ground that we're going to have to spend 8 hours (at least) going through sometime, just to figure out when and where the future is 'sometime more recent'.

#6 Updated by Xin Li about 6 years ago

Status changed from Unscreened to Screened

I've contacted a FreeBSD developer regarding to this. Looking at the website there is a full open source driver at: http://www.mellanox.com/page/products_dyn?product_family=193&mtag=freebsd_driver but we would like to confirm with the vendor and see if we can avoid some diverge with upstream by adopting the in tree driver.

#7 Updated by Xin Li about 6 years ago

Status changed from Screened to Investigation

#8 Updated by Jordan Hubbard almost 6 years ago

Target version changed from 10.0-M1 to 134

#9 Updated by Anonymous over 5 years ago

Project changed from FreeNAS to 9
Category changed from 76 to 184
Target version changed from 134 to 234

#10 Updated by Jordan Hubbard almost 5 years ago

Status changed from Investigation to Closed: Not To Be Fixed

#11 Updated by Chris Glazebrook almost 5 years ago

Jordan Hubbard wrote:

Not going with InfiniBand.

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I noticed you closed this because 'not going with Infiniband' but these cards do 10gb/40GB Ethernet as well.there are versions that run in Ethernet only as well. Will we see Ethernet support at least?

#12 Updated by aurf alien almost 5 years ago

Thanks Chris. I was hoping some one would notice.
This was an ethernet centric request.

#13 Updated by Justin Clift almost 5 years ago

As a possibly useful data point, I'm putting time into getting Mellanox cards (InfiniHost, ConnectX, ConnectX-2, ConnectX-3) working with FreeNAS.

My focus is in IB mode at present (my switch doesn't do Ethernet :<), but I can put up an experiment ISO with things set up for Ethernet mode if anyone has time to test it and give feedback? :)

#14 Updated by Justin Clift almost 5 years ago

As a thought, I've added an .iso download to that page with native ethernet mode support in it too:

Seems to work fine (so far), but it only has drivers for ConnectX, ConnectX-2, and ConnectX-3 in it so far. The ConnectX-4 drivers are only in FreeBSD 11.0 (development) as far as I know, and that's a bit too much of a stretch for me at the moment.

However, if it's useful for multiple people, I can probably put some time into trying to get it happening.

#15 Updated by aurf alien almost 5 years ago

Well, I'm stoked for the ConnectX-3 fromage.

Thank you.

I will most certainly download your ISO of 9.10 alpha v10. Thank you very much for this.

#16 Updated by aurf alien almost 5 years ago

Curious if this was merged with the latest 9.10 as of 4/26?

#17 Updated by aurf alien almost 5 years ago

Sorry to post again. You mind merging this into nightlies?

#18 Updated by Justin Clift over 4 years ago

aurf alien wrote:

Sorry to post again. You mind merging this into nightlies?

Sorry for the complete lack of reply. I must have had my account here misconfigured, so didn't receive any kind of email notification and didn't think to manually check. :(

Anyway, the drivers for Mellanox Ethernet support (not Infiniband nor IPoIB support though) have just been merged into the official FreeNAS 9.10 and FreeNAS 10 source trees. The FreeNAS 9.10 nightly builds will include it from here on.

Aurf, would you be ok to test the nightlies (any time from tomorrow onwards) and report back?

It needs testing before it'll be promoted into 9.10-STABLE for wider release. :)

#19 Updated by aurf alien over 4 years ago

Of course and many many thanks.

I'll update tomorrow night and report back by end of week how it goes.

#20 Updated by Justin Clift over 4 years ago

aurf alien wrote:

Of course and many many thanks.

I'll update tomorrow night and report back by end of week how it goes.

Awesome. :)

Download link for the 9.10 nightlies if that helps:

#21 Updated by Justin Clift over 4 years ago

aurf alien wrote:

Of course and many many thanks.

I'll update tomorrow night and report back by end of week how it goes.

Reminder ping? :)

#22 Updated by Justin Clift over 4 years ago

As a general note, it'd be really useful for someone with ConnectX-4 adapters to test the 9.10 nightlies.

The ConnectX-4 adapters use a different driver than the early series. Both are included in the nightlies, but AFAIK everyone testing only has the older series cards (eg ConnectX, ConnectX-2, ConnectX-3).

Some testing of the ConnectX-4 driver would help. :)

#23 Updated by aurf alien over 4 years ago

My CoonectX3 Pro works BTW. I'm a tad late on getting back to you :)

However I do not have a CoonectX4, I was wrong as mine is simply a 3 Pro. My switch is set to 56Gb so I wil

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