Setting Up Nfs-Rdma - Chelsio Communications Terminator Series Installation And User Manual

Chapter IV. iWARP (RDMA)
4.3.

Setting up NFS-RDMA

On RHEL 7 systems, uninstall OFED 4.8-2 if present in the machine.
Important
Starting NFS-RDMA
Server-side settings
Follow the steps mentioned below to set up an NFS-RDMA server.
/etc/exports
i. Make entry in
server as:
/share/rdma
/share/rdma1
Note that for each directory you export, you should have DIFFERENT fsid's.
ii. Load the iwarp modules and make sure peer2peer is set to 1.
xprtrdma
iii. Load and
[root@host~]# modprobe xprtrdma
[root@host~]# modprobe svcrdma
iv. Start the nfs service as:
[root@host~]# service nfs start
All services in NFS should start without errors.
v. Now we need to edit the file portlist in the path
Include the rdma port 2050 into this file as:
[root@host~]# echo rdma 2050 > /proc/fs/nfsd/portlist
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file for the directories you need to export using NFS-RDMA on
*(fsid=0,async,insecure,no_root_squash)
*(fsid=1,async,insecure,no_root_squash)
svcrdma
modules as:
/proc/fs/nfsd/
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