Quoting r. Roland Dreier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Subject: ANNOUNCE: First usable version of userspace verbs > > I'm happy to announce the initial availability of userspace verbs > support for brave testers. > > To try this out, check out the roland-uverbs subversion branch: > > svn co https://openib.org/svn/gen2/branches/roland-uverbs > > and build as usual. Select CONFIG_INFINIBAND_USER_VERBS to build > userspace verbs support. > > If you want to use a linux-2.6.10 kernel, you will need to apply the > new linux-2.6.10-backports.diff patch from the branch (which just > exports get_sb_pseudo()). No patches at all are required for an > up-to-date BK or linux-2.6.11-rc4 tree. > > If you use udev, add the rule > > KERNEL="uverbs*", NAME="infiniband/%k", MODE="0666" > > to your configuration. Otherwise, create the required device files: > > mknod /dev/infiniband/uverbs0 c 231 128 > mknod /dev/infiniband/uverbs1 c 231 129 > > and so on for as many HCAs as you have installed. > > The build the userspace libraries in src/userspace/libibverbs and > src/userspace/libmthca with the usual > > ./autogen.sh && ./configure && make && sudo make install > > passing whatever parameters to configure you want; you can use > --prefix to install to another location. If you set a non-standard > prefix, it may be useful to pass a -I<path> in CPPFLAGS to the > configure for libmthca. > > Once you have the libraries built and installed, load the ib_mthca and > ib_uverbs modules. By default, libibverbs will search for driver > libraries in <prefix>/lib/infiniband; if you installed libmthca > somewhere else, set the OPENIB_DRIVER_PATH environment variable to > point to the directory with mthca.so. > > To actually try things out, you can use the ibv_pingpong program > shipped as part of the libibverbs package. For example, one one > system start the server side > > $ ibv_pingpong > > and on another system start the client by passing the address of the > server (in this example I use IPv6 over IPoIB): > > $ ibv_pingpong fe80::202:c901:7fc:c711%ib0 > > The pingpong program has a number of options -- run ibv_pingpong -h to > see a list of the switches you can try. > > The current code is stable for me, but all that means is that my tiny > selection of tests and test systems has not uncovered any of the bugs > that are undoubtedly present. Some of the limitations I know about: > > - Only RC is implemented. There are not even any functions to call > to create UD address handles yet. > - Only Tavor mode is supported -- PCI Express HCAs will not work if > they are running mem-free firmware. > - On x86, only CPUs with SSE will work now. I'd be surprised if > anyone has x86 system with an HCA that doesn't have SSE. > > Also, I've only tried 32-bit i386 userspace running on i386 and x86_64 > kernels -- I don't expect any portability problems but I haven't even > built for other architectures. > > In any case, please give this a spin and let me know how it looks to you. > > My short- and medium-term plans are: > > 1. Catch up on reviewing and applying the patche queue I'm sitting on. > 2. Land the Arbel mem-free mode support from the roland-uverbs branch > onto the main trunk (and merge it upstream once 2.6.11 is out and > 2.6.12 opens). > 3. Implement UD support for userspace. I should have this done before > the end of next week. > 4. Implement mem-free support for userspace. > > Thanks, > Roland
One problem: infiniband/driver.h includes infiniband/kern-abi.h, which is not installed. I worked around that, for now, by copyng it by hand. -- MST - Michael S. Tsirkin _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
