Re: How to use SMB Direct

[ronnie sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 4:47 PM Hyeoncheol Lee <hyc.lee@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Xiaoli,
>
> cifsd is an in-kernel SMB server which supports SMB Direct.
> If you want to test SMB Direct with cifs, you can use cifsd.
>
> Currently we have tested SMB Direct between two old fashioned
> Mellanox ConnectX devices which are connected directly,
> and between two soft RoCE devices in kernel.

Thanks Hyeoncheol,

This is very interesting!

We have a buildbot upstream for the cifs client where we test every
set of patches before they go to linus :
http://smb3-test-rhel-75.southcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com/#/builders/2/builds/302

I havent had time to test with your cifsd yet but as you say you can
use soft-RoCE
you are saying it will work doing soft-RoCE between one VM running
cifs.ko and a basic virtio NIC
to another VM running your cifsd and also using a basic virtio NIC?

I would really want to set up so we can do RDMA tests for cifs.ko, and
by accident cifsd, in our buildbot.


regards
ronnie sahlberg


>
> You can get cifsd's code from the following url, and
> If you have any questions, we will help you.
>
> https://github.com/cifsd-team/cifsd.git
>
> Thank you.
>
>
> 2019년 12월 19일 (목) 오전 11:35, Xiaoli Feng <xifeng@redhat.com>님이 작성:
> >
> > Thanks Ronnie for the information. Last question: Is it supported that mount the windows file
> > server(has rdma hardware) with SMB Direct in linux client(has rdma hardware)?
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "ronnie sahlberg" <ronniesahlberg@gmail.com>
> > > To: "Xiaoli Feng" <xifeng@redhat.com>
> > > Cc: "Tom Talpey" <ttalpey@microsoft.com>, "linux-cifs" <linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2019 4:12:32 PM
> > > Subject: Re: How to use SMB Direct
> > >
> > > I don't think samba supports SMB Direct.
> > > Metze used to have a private repo with some experimental patches but I
> > > don't think it
> > > has landed in official samba yet.
> > >
> > > For a linux server, there is an experimental kernel based server
> > > called cifsd which should support SMBDirect
> > > but is incomplete in other areas. It is not part of linus tree yet
> > > (but soon I hope).
> > >
> > > Windows servers support SMBDirect but I am not aware of any soft-rdma
> > > support so you might be
> > > limited to just using real hw for any tests.
> > >
> > > Linux serverside SMBD support is not ready afaik.
> > >
> > > On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 12:49 PM Xiaoli Feng <xifeng@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hello Tom,
> > > >
> > > > Then I try to use IP to mount, it show this error:
> > > > [79912.177783] CIFS VFS: _smbd_get_connection:1740 rdma_connect failed
> > > > port=5445
> > > > [79912.220723] CIFS VFS: _smbd_get_connection:1740 rdma_connect failed
> > > > port=445
> > > >
> > > > Client:
> > > > $ mount //172.31.0.250/cifs cifs -o user=root,password=redhat,rdma
> > > > mount error(2): No such file or directory
> > > > Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
> > > >
> > > > Server:
> > > > $ ib addr |grep 172.31.0.250/
> > > > mlx4_ib0:               Link UP, Interface UP   172.31.0.250/24
> > > >
> > > > Samba version is 4.11.2. And firewalld is stopped.
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > > From: "Tom Talpey" <ttalpey@microsoft.com>
> > > > > To: "Xiaoli Feng" <xifeng@redhat.com>, linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
> > > > > Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2019 1:11:24 AM
> > > > > Subject: RE: How to use SMB Direct
> > > > >
> > > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > > From: linux-cifs-owner@vger.kernel.org
> > > > > > <linux-cifs-owner@vger.kernel.org>
> > > > > > On
> > > > > > Behalf Of Xiaoli Feng
> > > > > > Sent: Monday, December 16, 2019 10:30 AM
> > > > > > To: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
> > > > > > Subject: [EXTERNAL] How to use SMB Direct
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Hello guys,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'd like to test SMB Direct. But it's failed. I'm not sure if it works
> > > > > > in
> > > > > > upstream.
> > > > > > I setup samba server on one rdma machine with 5.5.0-rc1+ kernel. The
> > > > > > smb.conf is:
> > > > > > [cifs]
> > > > > > path=/mnt/cifs
> > > > > > writeable=yes
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Then I try to mount the share on another rdma machine with 5.5.0-rc1+
> > > > > > kernel.
> > > > > >    mount //$RDMA/cifs cifs -o user=root,password=$password,rdma
> > > > > >
> > > > > > It's failed because of "CIFS VFS: smbd_create_id:614
> > > > > > rdma_resolve_addr()
> > > > > > completed -113"
> > > > >
> > > > > Errno 113 is "no route to host". Sounds like a network or address issue.
> > > > >
> > > > > Tom.
> > > > >
> > > > > > Does SMB Direct work fine in upstream?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thanks.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > $ cat /boot/config-5.5.0-rc1+ |grep SMB_DIRECT
> > > > > > CONFIG_CIFS_SMB_DIRECT=y
> > > > > > $ ibstat
> > > > > > CA 'mlx4_0'
> > > > > >     CA type: MT4099
> > > > > >     Number of ports: 2
> > > > > >     Firmware version: 2.42.5000
> > > > > >     Hardware version: 1
> > > > > >     Node GUID: 0xf4521403007be0e0
> > > > > >     System image GUID: 0xf4521403007be0e3
> > > > > >     Port 1:
> > > > > >             State: Active
> > > > > >             Physical state: LinkUp
> > > > > >             Rate: 56
> > > > > >             Base lid: 29
> > > > > >             LMC: 0
> > > > > >             SM lid: 1
> > > > > >             Capability mask: 0x0259486a
> > > > > >             Port GUID: 0xf4521403007be0e1
> > > > > >             Link layer: InfiniBand
> > > > > >     Port 2:
> > > > > >             State: Active
> > > > > >             Physical state: LinkUp
> > > > > >             Rate: 40
> > > > > >             Base lid: 44
> > > > > >             LMC: 1
> > > > > >             SM lid: 36
> > > > > >             Capability mask: 0x02594868
> > > > > >             Port GUID: 0xf4521403007be0e2
> > > > > >             Link layer: InfiniBand
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > --
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