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<div dir="ltr" >ESS upgrades include mellanox modules upgrades in the ESS nodes. In fact, on those noes you should do not update those solo (unless support says so in your PMR), so if that's been the recommendation, I suggest you look at it.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" >Changelog on ESS 4.0.4 (no idea what ESS level you are running)</div>
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<div dir="ltr" ><pre> c) Support of MLNX_OFED_LINUX-3.2-2.0.0.1
- Updated from MLNX_OFED_LINUX-3.1-1.0.6.1 (ESS 4.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2)
- Updated from MLNX_OFED_LINUX-3.1-1.0.0.2 (ESS 3.5.x)
- Updated from MLNX_OFED_LINUX-2.4-1.0.2 (ESS 3.0.x)
- Support for PCIe3 LP 2-port 100 Gb EDR InfiniBand adapter x16 (FC EC3E)
- Requires System FW level FW840.20 (SV840_104)
- No changes from ESS 4.0.3</pre></div>
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<blockquote data-history-content-modified="1" dir="ltr" style="border-left:solid #aaaaaa 2px; margin-left:5px; padding-left:5px; direction:ltr; margin-right:0px" >----- Original message -----<br>From: "Olaf Weiser" <olaf.weiser@de.ibm.com><br>Sent by: gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org<br>To: gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org><br>Cc:<br>Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] nodes being ejected out of the cluster<br>Date: Wed, Jan 11, 2017 5:03 PM<br> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif" >most likely, there's smth wrong with your IB fabric ... </font><br><font size="2" face="sans-serif" >you say, you run ~ 700 nodes ? ...</font><br><font size="2" face="sans-serif" >Are you running with </font><font size="3" ><b>verbsRdmaSend</b></font><font size="2" face="sans-serif" >enabled ? ,if so, please consider to disable - and discuss this within the PMR </font><br><font size="2" face="sans-serif" >another issue, you may check is - Are you running the IPoIB in connected mode or datagram ... but as I said, please discuss this within the PMR .. there are to much dependencies to discuss this here .. </font><br><br><br><font size="2" face="sans-serif" >cheers</font><br><br>
<div><font size="2" face="sans-serif" >Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards</font><br><br><font size="2" face="sans-serif" > <br>Olaf Weiser<br><br>EMEA Storage Competence Center Mainz, German / IBM Systems, Storage Platform,<br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>IBM Deutschland<br>IBM Allee 1<br>71139 Ehningen<br>Phone: +49-170-579-44-66<br>E-Mail: olaf.weiser@de.ibm.com<br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>IBM Deutschland GmbH / Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Martin Jetter<br>Geschäftsführung: Martina Koederitz (Vorsitzende), Susanne Peter, Norbert Janzen, Dr. Christian Keller, Ivo Koerner, Markus Koerner<br>Sitz der Gesellschaft: Ehningen / Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 14562 / WEEE-Reg.-Nr. DE 99369940 </font><br><br><br><br><font color="#5f5f5f" size="1" face="sans-serif" >From: </font><font size="1" face="sans-serif" >Damir Krstic <damir.krstic@gmail.com></font><br><font color="#5f5f5f" size="1" face="sans-serif" >To: </font><font size="1" face="sans-serif" >gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org></font><br><font color="#5f5f5f" size="1" face="sans-serif" >Date: </font><font size="1" face="sans-serif" >01/11/2017 03:39 PM</font><br><font color="#5f5f5f" size="1" face="sans-serif" >Subject: </font><font size="1" face="sans-serif" >[gpfsug-discuss] nodes being ejected out of the cluster</font><br><font color="#5f5f5f" size="1" face="sans-serif" >Sent by: </font><font size="1" face="sans-serif" >gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org</font>
<hr noshade="noshade" ><br><br><br><font size="3" >We are running GPFS 4.2 on our cluster (around 700 compute nodes). Our storage (ESS GL6) is also running GPFS 4.2. Compute nodes and storage are connected via Infiniband (FDR14). At the time of implementation of ESS, we were instructed to enable RDMA in addition to IPoIB. Previously we only ran IPoIB on our GPFS3.5 cluster.</font><br><br><font size="3" >Every since the implementation (sometime back in July of 2016) we see a lot of compute nodes being ejected. What usually precedes the ejection are following messages:</font><br><br><font size="3" >Jan 11 02:03:15 quser13 mmfs: [E] VERBS RDMA rdma send error IBV_WC_RNR_RETRY_EXC_ERR to 172.41.2.5 (gssio2-fdr) on mlx4_0 port 1 fabnum 0 vendor_err 135 </font><br><font size="3" >Jan 11 02:03:15 quser13 mmfs: [E] VERBS RDMA closed connection to 172.41.2.5 (gssio2-fdr) on mlx4_0 port 1 fabnum 0 due to send error IBV_WC_RNR_RETRY_EXC_ERR index 2</font><br><font size="3" >Jan 11 02:03:26 quser13 mmfs: [E] VERBS RDMA rdma send error IBV_WC_RNR_RETRY_EXC_ERR to 172.41.2.5 (gssio2-fdr) on mlx4_0 port 1 fabnum 0 vendor_err 135 </font><br><font size="3" >Jan 11 02:03:26 quser13 mmfs: [E] VERBS RDMA closed connection to 172.41.2.5 (gssio2-fdr) on mlx4_0 port 1 fabnum 0 due to send error IBV_WC_WR_FLUSH_ERR index 1</font><br><font size="3" >Jan 11 02:03:26 quser13 mmfs: [E] VERBS RDMA rdma send error IBV_WC_RNR_RETRY_EXC_ERR to 172.41.2.5 (gssio2-fdr) on mlx4_0 port 1 fabnum 0 vendor_err 135 </font><br><font size="3" >Jan 11 02:03:26 quser13 mmfs: [E] VERBS RDMA closed connection to 172.41.2.5 (gssio2-fdr) on mlx4_0 port 1 fabnum 0 due to send error IBV_WC_RNR_RETRY_EXC_ERR index 2</font><br><font size="3" >Jan 11 02:06:38 quser11 mmfs: [E] VERBS RDMA rdma send error IBV_WC_RNR_RETRY_EXC_ERR to 172.41.2.5 (gssio2-fdr) on mlx4_0 port 1 fabnum 0 vendor_err 135 </font><br><font size="3" >Jan 11 02:06:38 quser11 mmfs: [E] VERBS RDMA closed connection to 172.41.2.5 (gssio2-fdr) on mlx4_0 port 1 fabnum 0 due to send error IBV_WC_WR_FLUSH_ERR index 400</font><br><br><font size="3" >Even our ESS IO server sometimes ends up being ejected (case in point - yesterday morning):</font><br><br><font size="3" >Jan 10 11:23:42 gssio2 mmfs: [E] VERBS RDMA rdma send error IBV_WC_RNR_RETRY_EXC_ERR to 172.41.2.1 (gssio1-fdr) on mlx5_1 port 1 fabnum 0 vendor_err 135</font><br><font size="3" >Jan 10 11:23:42 gssio2 mmfs: [E] VERBS RDMA closed connection to 172.41.2.1 (gssio1-fdr) on mlx5_1 port 1 fabnum 0 due to send error IBV_WC_RNR_RETRY_EXC_ERR index 3001</font><br><font size="3" >Jan 10 11:23:43 gssio2 mmfs: [E] VERBS RDMA rdma send error IBV_WC_RNR_RETRY_EXC_ERR to 172.41.2.1 (gssio1-fdr) on mlx5_1 port 2 fabnum 0 vendor_err 135</font><br><font size="3" >Jan 10 11:23:43 gssio2 mmfs: [E] VERBS RDMA closed connection to 172.41.2.1 (gssio1-fdr) on mlx5_1 port 2 fabnum 0 due to send error IBV_WC_RNR_RETRY_EXC_ERR index 2671</font><br><font size="3" >Jan 10 11:23:43 gssio2 mmfs: [E] VERBS RDMA rdma send error IBV_WC_RNR_RETRY_EXC_ERR to 172.41.2.1 (gssio1-fdr) on mlx5_0 port 2 fabnum 0 vendor_err 135</font><br><font size="3" >Jan 10 11:23:43 gssio2 mmfs: [E] VERBS RDMA closed connection to 172.41.2.1 (gssio1-fdr) on mlx5_0 port 2 fabnum 0 due to send error IBV_WC_RNR_RETRY_EXC_ERR index 2495</font><br><font size="3" >Jan 10 11:23:44 gssio2 mmfs: [E] VERBS RDMA rdma send error IBV_WC_RNR_RETRY_EXC_ERR to 172.41.2.1 (gssio1-fdr) on mlx5_0 port 1 fabnum 0 vendor_err 135</font><br><font size="3" >Jan 10 11:23:44 gssio2 mmfs: [E] VERBS RDMA closed connection to 172.41.2.1 (gssio1-fdr) on mlx5_0 port 1 fabnum 0 due to send error IBV_WC_RNR_RETRY_EXC_ERR index 3077</font><br><font size="3" >Jan 10 11:24:11 gssio2 mmfs: [N] Node 172.41.2.1 (gssio1-fdr) lease renewal is overdue. Pinging to check if it is alive</font><br><br><font size="3" >I've had multiple PMRs open for this issue, and I am told that our ESS needs code level upgrades in order to fix this issue. Looking at the errors, I think the issue is Infiniband related, and I am wondering if anyone on this list has seen similar issues?</font><br><br><font size="3" >Thanks for your help in advance.</font><br><br><font size="3" >Damir</font><tt><font size="3" face="" >_______________________________________________<br>gpfsug-discuss mailing list<br>gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org</font></tt><br><tt><font size="3" face="" ><a href="http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss" target="_blank" >http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss</a></font></tt><br><br> </div>
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