Dirk / Debian guys --
When you install binary OMPI (which pulls in libibverbs and all the
rest), do you set the OpenFabrics kernel drivers to start upon boot?
Or does the user have to do that manually?
I ask because of the check Pasha proposes: if the user has started the
OpenFabrics kernel drivers, it's ok for OMPI to print warning messages
(this is better than the current: if libibverbs exists, it's ok for
OMPI to print warning messages).
On May 22, 2008, at 3:25 PM, Pavel Shamis (Pasha) wrote:
1. Driver doesn't support the HCA - If I remember correct , RH40
by default doesn't support ConnectX hca . The device_list will be
empty. It is very exotic case.
2. Driver version doesn't correspond with fw version
3. FW was broken
4. Driver was broken and failed to start - it is not very exotic
case too. Some times user make some modification - upgrade/install/
etc.. and it brakes driver.
In such cases, the ibv_devinfo(1) and ibv_devices(1) commands
would show the same error.
Yep these utilities will show the same error.
Cases 1-2-3 we may cover pretty simple. OPENIB driver creates "/
dev/infiniband" during his startup. So if /dev/infiniband exists
and _get_device_list() is empty we may print warning.
Ok, that seems reasonable.
I don't know how we can cover case 4 :-(
If the user makes modifications to the driver and breaks it, I
don't think we can be held responsible for that -- prudence
declares that you should verify that your [self-modified] driver is
not broken first before blaming Open MPI. I'm not that concerned
about #4; most of my customers do not modify the drivers.
Agree about #4.
The check for /dev/infiniband should be simple and I think we can
add it to 1.3 .
Pasha.
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Jeff Squyres
Cisco Systems
