RE: [openib-general] OFED-1.0-rc4 is available

Tziporet Koren Sun, 07 May 2006 00:43:22 -0700

Title: OFED-1.0-rc4 is available

Thanks for your input.

See inside.

Tziporet

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2006 10:29 AM
To: Tziporet Koren; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: RE: [openib-general] OFED-1.0-rc4 is available

We see many problems with RC4, we've only tested i686 and x86_64 so far (just started ia64 and ppc64).

1) If the new SDP does not make it in until RC5, I don't see how we can avoid an RC6.

I agree – and this is what I meant in my mail last week. We plan RC5 with SDP and then RC6 for showstopper bugs.

2) SRP is missing on RHEL4 (http://openib.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51), which is a big regression.
It was removed on purpose since when running simple tests system is hanged due to the spin-lock issue in kernel 2.6.9 (see discussion of Ishai and Doug about this). We can put it back but I don’t see a point in putting something that easily halts the machine or causing kernel oops. Ishai is working to debug it and once it is solved we will put it back.
What is your opinion on this?

3) RDS does not load on RHEL4 U3 (http://openib.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61).
SilverStorm should fix this.

4) No MPI for ppc64.
Pasha will try to work with OSU and solve it this week.

5) Open MPI is not working well for Pallas benchmarks, more details to follow.
That’s Jeff’s

Scott Weitzenkamp

SQA and Release Manager

Server Virtualization Business Unit

Cisco Systems

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tziporet Koren
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 9:04 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: openib-general
Subject: [openib-general] OFED-1.0-rc4 is available

Hi All,

We have prepared OFED 1.0 RC4.

Release location: *https://openib.org/svn/gen2/branches/1.0/ofed/releases*

File: OFED-1.0-rc4.tgz

*BUILD_ID:*

OFED-1.0-rc4

openib-1.0 (REV=6922)

# User space

https://openib.org/svn/gen2/branches/1.0/src/userspace

# Kernel space

git/HEAD: ref: refs/heads/for-2.6.17

          commit 9817d207dc13e3a9fc0287bbd36bdfa3cffe5ed4

https://openib.org/svn/gen2/branches/1.0/ofed/tags/rc4/linux-kernel

# MPI

mpi_osu-0.9.7-mlx2.1.0.tgz

openmpi-1.1a3-1.src.rpm

mpitests-1.0-0.src.rpm

*OSes:*

    * RH EL4 up2: 2.6.9-22.ELsmp

    * RH EL4 up3: 2.6.9-34.ELsmp

    * Fedora C4: 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4

    * SLES10 beta 7: 2.6.16-rc5-git9-2-smp

    * SUSE 10 Pro: 2.6.13-15-smp

    * kernel.org: 2.6.16

*Systems:*

    * x86_64

    * x86

    * ia64

    * ppc64

*Main changes from RC3:*

1.      Kernel code based on git (see BUILD_ID for version)

2.      SRP - with new features: FMR, tunable parameters, SRP daemon (see details below)

3.      Open MPI – new package based on 1.1a3

4.      RDS – new version from main trunk

5.      Standard network configuration: Network configuration scripts ifcfg-ib*, located under /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts (.../network for SuSE)

6.      /etc/modprobe.conf updated with:
    alias ib0 ib_ipoib
    ...
    alias net-pf-26 ib_sdp
Note: this causes unloading the ipoib module to fail on SuSE (hotplug issue)

7.      ipath driver available on RH EL4 (up2 and up3).

8.      uDAPL is available on RH EL4 (up2 and up3).

9.      Documentation updated (the installation guide is not complete).

10.     pdsh has been removed from the package.

11.     libibat has been removed.

12.     Bug Fixes

*Package limitations:*

1.      iSER is working on SuSE SLES 10 Beta8 only

2.      SDP has not been upgraded yet.

3.      MPI OSU and Open MPI compilation fails on PPC64

4.      ipath driver compilation fails on FedoraC4.

*SRP details:*

SRP new features and changes:

·       FMR support was added.

·       Added an interface for removing a target in the initiator.

·       Added an interface for querying the connected targets of an initiator.

·       The SRP tool ibsrpdm can execute as a daemon. The daemon adds new targets that join the network and removes targets that leave the network.

·       ibsrpdm can use new SM feature: enhanced capability mask matching (errata MGTWG8372)

Limitation:

·       Attempting to add the same target twice fails – to be fixed in RC5.

·       The implementation of the target list query must be modified. The new implementation should create a directory in sysfs for each target – to be fixed in RC5.

Please send us any issues you encounter and/or test results.

Thanks

Tziporet & Vlad

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