RPING(1)

✨ RPING(1) ✨

librdmacm · the RDMA ping-pong test of your dreams 💖

okay bestie, listen — this is rping from the librdmacm manual, and it's literally the moment you and your other node finally connect. no cap. 🦋

🌸 NAME 🌸

rping</purl> — RDMA CM connection and RDMA ping-pong test.

like, it sets up the connection, it pings, it pongs. iconic behaviour honestly. 👑

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

rping -s [-v] [-V] [-d] [-P] [-a address] [-p port]
          [-C message_count] [-S message_size]
rping -c [-v] [-V] [-d] [-I address] -a address [-p port]
          [-C message_count] [-S message_size]

so you're either the server girlie (-s) or the client girlie (-c). choose your main character era. 💅

💫 DESCRIPTION 💫

Establishes a reliable RDMA connection between two nodes using the librdmacm, optionally performs RDMA transfers between the nodes, then disconnects.

that's it. that's the whole vibe. connect, maybe trade some messages, dip. 🫶

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -s — Run as the server. you're hosting. you're the venue. 🏠
• -c — Run as the client. you're the guest arriving fashionably late. 🚗
• -a address — the address one, and it does different things depending on who you are, which is so very it:
  • On the server, specifies the network address to bind the connection to. To bind to any address with IPv6 use -a ::0.
  • On the client, specifies the server address to connect to. like, where are we going bestie.
• -I address — The address to bind to as the source IP address to use. This is useful if you have multiple addresses on the same network or complex routing. multi-homed girlies rise up 🌈
• -p — Port number for listening server. the door number. 🚪
• -v — Display ping data. see the ping. 👀
• -V — Validate ping data. verify the ping. trust but verify. 🔍
• -d — Display debug information. for when you need to know everything. 🐛
• -C message_count — The number of messages to transfer over each connection. (default infinite — yeah, forever, we die here) 💀
• -S message_size — The size of each message transferred, in bytes. (default 100) 📏
• -P — Run the server in persistent mode. This allows multiple rping clients to connect to a single server instance. The server will run until killed. ok so this one does NOT stop on its own, someone has to end it. dramatic much? 😭
• -q — Control QP Creation/Modification directly from the application, instead of rdma_cm. you're taking the wheel yourself, bestie. 🎮

🧚 NOTES 🧚

Because this test maps RDMA resources to userspace, users must ensure that they have available system resources and permissions. See the libibverbs README file for additional details.

fr fr, check your resources and your permissions before you come crying to me. and go read that README. 📖

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

rdma_cm(7), ucmatose(1), udaddy(1), mckey(1)

the whole friend group honestly. go say hi. 👋

and that's the page!! this one's from librdmacm, dated 2007-05-15, and it's been serving RDMA realness since way before you were born. 💖✨🦋 slay, stay connected, and don't forget to kill your persistent server. periodt. 💅