On 12/20/2011 03:33 PM, Sebastian Riemer wrote:
Now I know why everybody has his own OFED - so do we now. E.g. the QLogic stuff isn't even compilable without the QLogic OFED, because they only put their patches in there. Luckily, we have only Mellanox HCAs in our productive environment.
Actually it is, but we've have to hack the install scripts pretty hard to ... er ... fix some things. And even then, they don't install libipath rpms (for rpm based distros) which turns out to be ... quite important ... for RDMA.
We've generally started with the OFED drops and hacked the install scripts even for Ubuntu/Debian. Yeah, would be cleaner to use the .debs, and I think Guy Coates has the infrastructure set up for this.
Would it help, if we provide our patches for open-iscsi and IB/iSER> 2.6.32 to bring that into mainline OFED?
As Or notes, OFED is providing the kernel modules more than the iscsi code drop. Would be better for all (cough cough) to push changes back to the iscsi initiator maintainer (Mike Christie I think).
Sebastian
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