Jeff Squyres wrote: > On Feb 5, 2010, at 4:14 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > >> Well, I think you are right. This kind of change seems appropriate to >> me for mainline, but OFED/RHEL should carry a responsibility to manage >> an identified incompatibility, either patch their kernel, patch their >> OMPI, or publish an errata. That is the role of a distribution. >> > > RHEL has said, multiple times, that they rely on OpenFabrics to do the Right > Thing. They don't do a lot of testing, validating, etc. > > >> Sounds like this is taken care for now anyhow, Sean's patch to remove >> it for iwarp since it doesn't work today with any iwarp drivers does >> obscure the problem.. But it does seem like rdma_cm mode for IB >> networks will still be broken in OMPI with the new kernels. >> > > Correct. > > So why not back off putting this in the kernel that's coming out now now now? > Why not put it in *next* kernel? (or even better, the one after that) > > Is there a rush / need to have this in *now*? > >
There is still some inconsistency here. Sean, you claimed binds to 127.0.0.1 succeed in ofed-1.4 for IB devices. If so, then folks running IB/openmpi/rdmacm should be seeing issues. We need to dig a little more... _______________________________________________ ewg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ewg
