Re: Infiniband at Azure

In reply to: Mina_Galić : "Infiniband at Azure"
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From: Hans Petter Selasky <hps_at_selasky.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2023 09:14:17 UTC

On 4/18/23 00:49, Mina Galić wrote:
> Hi folks!
> 
> cross-posting because it concerns both topics!
> 
> recently a cloud-init colleague working on Azure got me access to
> an Azure HPC instance — which comes with two Infiniband Nvidia /
> Mellanox controllers.
> 
> These show up with ibstat(8), but not under ifconfig(8).
> 
> Under Linux, WA Agent is responsible for bringing Infiniband devices
> up to a base-line configuration:
> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/extensions/enable-infiniband
> 
> On FreeBSD, WA Agent is rather poorly supported.
> 
> So, how do I bring up these mlx5_0 devices? How do i make them show
> up in ifconfig? And is anyone interested in (me) fixing up WAAgent
> to work better on FreeBSD?
> 
> 
> Thank you for your help,
> 

Hi,

kldload ipoib

Should do the trick!

--HPS