Steve Wise wrote:
Jon Mason wrote:
Hey Vlad,

I wanted to get you the NFS-RDMA backport patches I have queued up prior
to rc1 being built.  I have this patch (RHEL5.2), as well as 2.6.22, and
2.6.25 (which I will be sending in separate e-mails).


Thanks Jon and Tom for doing this work!

Yes. Thanks from me as well. Although I see much overlap between your RHEL5.2 patch and my SLES10SP2 patches, I will start with your work in order to unify the two backports as much as possible. Your backport also answers a few questions I've been having when reviewing my backport. Hopefully the SLES10SP2 backport is not too far off. Thanks again.

-jeff


This patch contains the changes necessary to get NFS-RDMA 99% working on
RHEL5.2.  It 100% passes of the connectathon testcases when using RDMA.
When using TCP, 1 testcase hangs (for which I've found a code hack to
work around, but not a fix).  The testcase is the 30MB transfer in the
"special" tests, and is 100% reproducible.

With the attached patch, you can now enable the nfs-rdma-mod by default
and run it through your nightly build tests.



Just to clarify: Enable nfs-rdma-mod on rhel5.2, 2.6.22, and 2.6.18 only. Also we'll have to address any hw platform issues that come up during your builds.


There is one problem with nfs-utils, which will necessitate including it
in the OFED distribution.  Currently, there is a check for the kernel
version you are running when running the mount.nfs command.  This check
is to verify if one is running a kernel greater than 2.6.22.  If not,
then it will not allow a mount with RDMA as an option.  In earlier
versions, there was an override option of "-i".  This has since been
removed for an unknown reason (but if you run `mount.nfs`, you can see
that they forgot to remove 'i' from "usage" options).  I will send them
a patch to fix this in the latest version, but this will be a problem
that will require it to be built locally until such a time as that is
pulled in.



We'll need to ship nfs-utils that works for nfsrdma on the older kernels as part of ofed-1.4.1. Stay tuned for this.


Steve.

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