On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 at 11:10:49PM +0200, Tziporet Koren wrote: > James Lentini wrote: >> On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Pawel Dziekonski wrote: >> >> >>> hi, >>> >> The name of Tom's tree changed last Wednesday. I'll update the docs with >> the new address. >> >> The new URL is: >> git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/tomtucker/xprt-switch-2.6.git >> >>> My hardware will be Mellanox HBAa and Flextronics switch. I already >>> know that NFS-RDMA client is in official kernel. What about server? >>> Should I use OFED 1.2 or try 1.3? Should I use infiniband drivers from >>> kernel or OFED? > > Note that NFS-RDMA is not part of OFED now (will be only in 1.4) however > Tom prepared backport patches that enable it to work on distros with OFED > 1.2 > You can look at http://www.mellanox.com/products/nfs_rdma_sdk.php for more > info on this
Hi, thanks for answers. I'm still writing to this list because [EMAIL PROTECTED] seems to be dead... :( I pulled Tom's tree from new url and build a kernel. then I downloaded OFED from http://www.mellanox.com/downloads/NFSoRDMA/OFED-1.2-NFS-RDMA.gz, however ofa-kernel fails to build. whatever I do I always got in ofa-kernel: make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/ib/xprt-switch-2.6' test -e include/linux/autoconf.h -a -e include/config/auto.conf || ( \ echo; \ echo " ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid."; \ echo " include/linux/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are missing."; \ echo " Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to fix it."; \ echo; \ /bin/false) obviously, doing 'make oldconfig && make prepare' does not help. anyway, above mentioned files do exist: # ls -la /usr/src/ib/xprt-switch-2.6/{include/linux/autoconf.h,include/config/auto.conf} -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10156 Jan 25 17:42 /usr/src/ib/xprt-switch-2.6/include/config/auto.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14733 Jan 25 17:42 /usr/src/ib/xprt-switch-2.6/include/linux/autoconf.h despite of above, compilation continues but fails with: gcc -Wp,-MD,/var/tmp/OFEDRPM/BUILD/ofa_kernel-1.2/drivers/infiniband/core/.mad.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/3.4.6/include -D__KERNEL__ -I/var/tmp/OFEDRPM/BUILD/ofa_kernel-1.2/include -I/var/tmp/OFEDRPM/BUILD/ofa_kernel-1.2/drivers/infiniband/include -Iinclude -include include/linux/autoconf.h -include /var/tmp/OFEDRPM/BUILD/ofa_kernel-1.2/include/linux/autoconf.h -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Os -m64 -mno-red-zone -mcmodel=kernel -pipe -Wno-sign-compare -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -funit-at-a-time -mno-sse -mno-mmx -mno-sse2 -mno-3dnow -maccumulate-outgoing-args -DCONFIG_AS_CFI=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SIGNAL_FRAME=1 -fomit-frame-pointer -Wdeclaration-after-statement -DMODULE -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(mad)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(ib_mad)" -c -o /var/tmp/OFEDRPM/BUILD/ofa_kernel-1.2/drivers/infiniband/core/.tmp_mad.o /var/tmp/OFEDRPM/BUILD/ofa_kernel-1.2/drivers/infiniband/core/mad.c /var/tmp/OFEDRPM/BUILD/ofa_kernel-1.2/drivers/infiniband/core/mad.c: In function `ib_mad_init_module': /var/tmp/OFEDRPM/BUILD/ofa_kernel-1.2/drivers/infiniband/core/mad.c:2966: error: too many arguments to function `kmem_cache_create' make[4]: *** [/var/tmp/OFEDRPM/BUILD/ofa_kernel-1.2/drivers/infiniband/core/mad.o] Error 1 make[3]: *** [/var/tmp/OFEDRPM/BUILD/ofa_kernel-1.2/drivers/infiniband/core] Error 2 make[2]: *** [/var/tmp/OFEDRPM/BUILD/ofa_kernel-1.2/drivers/infiniband] Error 2 make[1]: *** [_module_/var/tmp/OFEDRPM/BUILD/ofa_kernel-1.2] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/ib/xprt-switch-2.6' make: *** [kernel] Error 2 error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.3877 (%install) full log: https://cefeid.wcss.wroc.pl/d/tmp/OFED.build.32122.log thanks in advance, P -- Pawel Dziekonski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wroclaw Centre for Networking & Supercomputing, HPC Department Politechnika Wr., pl. Grunwaldzki 9, bud. D2/101, 50-377 Wroclaw, POLAND phone: +48 71 3202043, fax: +48 71 3225797, http://www.wcss.wroc.pl _______________________________________________ general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
