Re: [ewg] [ANNOUNCE] OFED 4.8-rc2 release is available

2017-05-04 Thread Doug Ledford
On 5/4/2017 3:14 PM, Woodruff, Robert J wrote: > Doug Ledford wrote, >> The OFA has already learned their lesson once with XRC. I wonder >> if they are getting ready to get hit with another lesson over this. >> The issue is if the OFA ships an API and it isn't upstream, t

Re: [ewg] [ANNOUNCE] OFED 4.8-rc2 release is available

2017-05-04 Thread Doug Ledford
of wanting to get along with the upstream linux community. As long as they want to preserve that relationship, then they should listen when the community has something to say. It might well be their decision, but the ramifications of that decision might sabotage their other interests. -- Doug Ledford <

Re: [ewg] [ANNOUNCE] OFED 4.8-rc2 release is available

2017-05-04 Thread Doug Ledford
s here are those > people running Xeon Phi with Mellanox HCAs who are being forced to > use OFED, rather than upstream code. I suspect there are legitimate grounds to complain about the fact that it is shipped in the OFA OFED and not limited to an Intel OFED derivative similar to Mellanox OFED.

Re: [ewg] [ANNOUNCE] OFED 4.8-rc2 release is available

2017-05-04 Thread Doug Ledford
r to peer PCI operations and such without any input from the Xeon Phi folks. -- Doug Ledford <dledf...@redhat.com> GPG Key ID: B826A3330E572FDD Key fingerprint = AE6B 1BDA 122B 23B4 265B 1274 B826 A333 0E57 2FDD signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___

Re: [ewg] OFED release with RoCE v2 support

2016-05-18 Thread Doug Ledford
d in the least if backports to an EL6 kernel are a simple no-go for current upstream code. -- Doug Ledford <dledf...@redhat.com> GPG KeyID: 0E572FDD signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ ewg mailing list ewg@list

Re: [ewg] OFED release with RoCE v2 support

2016-05-18 Thread Doug Ledford
MA stack and out. I suspect this backport cycle may be worse than those in the past. But I could be wrong... -- Doug Ledford <dledf...@redhat.com> GPG KeyID: 0E572FDD signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature _

Re: [ewg] libibverbs not compiling against RHEL6.6

2016-05-16 Thread Doug Ledford
On 05/16/2016 12:36 PM, Steve Wise wrote: > > >> -Original Message----- >> From: Doug Ledford [mailto:dledf...@redhat.com] >> Sent: Monday, May 16, 2016 11:27 AM >> To: Steve Wise; ewg@lists.openfabrics.org >> Subject: Re: libibverbs not compiling against

Re: [ewg] libibverbs not compiling against RHEL6.6

2016-05-16 Thread Doug Ledford
On 05/16/2016 12:09 PM, Steve Wise wrote: > See: http://bugs.openfabrics.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2598 > > Looks like some compilation problem against RHEL6.6. Who should own > this? It is assigned to Doug Ledford, but I'm not sure he's the correct > person? I'm not, but

Re: [ewg] [PATCH] libmlx5: Implement missing open_qp verb

2015-05-26 Thread Doug Ledford
; -- Doug Ledford dledf...@redhat.com GPG KeyID: 0E572FDD signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ ewg mailing list ewg@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/mailman/listinfo/ewg

Re: [ewg] Huge size for opensm process (5.7GB)

2013-09-30 Thread Doug Ledford
from rhel6.4 where this is no longer an issue. -- Doug Ledford dledf...@redhat.com GPG KeyID: 0E572FDD http://people.redhat.com/dledford ___ ewg mailing list ewg@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin

Re: [ewg] Status of SDP? (and ib_sdp patch for Linux-3.4.x)

2012-04-23 Thread Doug Ledford
. There is very little impetus to maintain two versions of software to make sockets based apps work on RDMA fabrics when the relative gain of one over the other isn't that high and it has legal encumbrances to negate the positive performance benefit. -- Doug Ledford dledf...@redhat.com GPG

[ewg] Licensing issue with current rds-tools tarballs

2012-01-11 Thread Doug Ledford
-example.c, the address for the FSF is incorrect). Just an FYI for any companies whose legal teams are as strict as ours about not redistributing code without a proper, legal license. I hope an rds-tools-2.0.8 should be rolled soon to resolve the issue. -- Doug Ledford dledf...@redhat.com

Re: [ewg] [RFC] – Proposal for new process for OFED releases

2011-12-05 Thread Doug Ledford
will be used for easy installation of all packages in a friendly manner Yay!!! I'm all in favor. -- Doug Ledford dledf...@redhat.com GPG KeyID: 0E572FDD ___ ewg mailing list ewg@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi

Re: [ewg] Allowing ib dignostics to be run without being logged in as root.

2010-06-19 Thread Doug Ledford
and minimize the threat. Smaller programs where you can inspect and understand the program are more trustable than large complex programs. This part is very true. -- Doug Ledford dledf...@redhat.com GPG KeyID: CFBFF194 http://people.redhat.com/dledford Infiniband specific

Re: [ewg] Allowing ib dignostics to be run without being logged in as root.

2010-06-19 Thread Doug Ledford
it. -- Doug Ledford dledf...@redhat.com GPG KeyID: CFBFF194 http://people.redhat.com/dledford Infiniband specific RPMs available at http://people.redhat.com/dledford/Infiniband signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [ewg] [PATCH v4] IB Core: RAW ETH support

2010-06-17 Thread Doug Ledford
. -- Doug Ledford dledf...@redhat.com GPG KeyID: CFBFF194 http://people.redhat.com/dledford Infiniband specific RPMs available at http://people.redhat.com/dledford/Infiniband signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [ewg] [PATCH v4] IB Core: RAW ETH support

2010-06-17 Thread Doug Ledford
into the brick wall you ran into before. -- Doug Ledford dledf...@redhat.com GPG KeyID: CFBFF194 http://people.redhat.com/dledford Infiniband specific RPMs available at http://people.redhat.com/dledford/Infiniband signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: [ofa-general] Re: [ewg] [Patch mthca backport] Don't use kmalloc 128k

2009-07-30 Thread Doug Ledford
. -- Doug Ledford dledf...@redhat.com GPG KeyID: CFBFF194 http://people.redhat.com/dledford InfiniBand Specific RPMS http://people.redhat.com/dledford/Infiniband PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ ewg mailing list ewg

Re: [ofa-general] Re: [ewg] [Patch mthca backport] Don't use kmalloc 128k

2009-07-27 Thread Doug Ledford
: on large allocations forward to __g_f_p(). See include/linux/slub_def.h's definition of kmalloc_large and kmalloc. -- Doug Ledford dledf...@redhat.com GPG KeyID: CFBFF194 http://people.redhat.com/dledford InfiniBand Specific RPMS http://people.redhat.com/dledford/Infiniband

Re: [ewg] [Patch mthca backport] Don't use kmalloc 128k

2009-07-23 Thread Doug Ledford
On Jul 23, 2009, at 4:20 AM, Jack Morgenstein wrote: On Thursday 16 July 2009 21:08, Doug Ledford wrote: On rhel4 and rhel5 machines, the kmalloc implementation does not automatically forward kmalloc requests 128kb to __get_free_pages. Please include this patch in all rhel4 and rhel5 backport

[ewg] [Patch mthca backport] Don't use kmalloc 128k

2009-07-16 Thread Doug Ledford
requests larger than 128k (at least in this code path, there may be others lurking too, I'll forward additional patches if I find they are needed). bz508902.patch Description: Binary data -- Doug Ledford dledf...@redhat.com GPG KeyID: CFBFF194 http://people.redhat.com/dledford InfiniBand

Re: [ewg] Distribution of userspace code for OFED-1.5

2009-06-26 Thread Doug Ledford
ewg@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ewg - -- Doug Ledford dledf...@redhat.com GPG KeyID: CFBFF194 http://people.redhat.com/dledford Infiniband specific RPMs available at http://people.redhat.com/dledford

Re: [ewg] RFC: Do we wish to take MPI out of OFED?

2009-06-07 Thread Doug Ledford
. You're right, API issues *can* be resolved even if the latest MPIs are shipped with OFED. It's just that this hasn't been the case in the past, and throwing everything in the same bucket is a strong incentive not to worry about it in the future. -- Doug Ledford dledf...@redhat.com GPG

Re: [ofa-general] RE: [ewg] RFC: Do we wish to take MPI out of OFED?

2009-06-07 Thread Doug Ledford
contrast to the rest of our entire operating system where we isolate and target things that need fixed and only things that need fixed. -- Doug Ledford dledf...@redhat.com GPG KeyID: CFBFF194 http://people.redhat.com/dledford Infiniband specific RPMs available

RE: [ofa-general] RE: [ewg] RFC: Do we wish to take MPI out of OFED?

2009-06-07 Thread Doug Ledford
the case, then I would question whether that's decoupled from OFED, or just not in the OFED tarball. -- Doug Ledford dledf...@redhat.com GPG KeyID: CFBFF194 http://people.redhat.com/dledford Infiniband specific RPMs available at http://people.redhat.com

Re: [ewg] RFC: Do we wish to take MPI out of OFED?

2009-06-06 Thread Doug Ledford
/mailman/listinfo/ewg -- Doug Ledford dledf...@redhat.com GPG KeyID: CFBFF194 http://people.redhat.com/dledford Infiniband specific RPMs available at http://people.redhat.com/dledford/Infiniband signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: [ewg] RFC: Do we wish to take MPI out of OFED?

2009-06-04 Thread Doug Ledford
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 19:14 +0200, Pawel Dziekonski wrote: On Wed, 03 Jun 2009 at 10:14:07AM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: On Jun 3, 2009, at 3:39 AM, Pawel Dziekonski wrote: On Tue, 02 Jun 2009 at 10:30:07PM +0300, Tziporet Koren wrote: Main reasons to keep MPI in OFED: - All participants

Re: [ewg] RFC: Do we wish to take MPI out of OFED?

2009-06-03 Thread Doug Ledford
http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ewg -- Doug Ledford dledf...@redhat.com GPG KeyID: CFBFF194 http://people.redhat.com/dledford InfiniBand Specific RPMS http://people.redhat.com/dledford/Infiniband PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [ewg] shipping firmware with ofed

2009-03-04 Thread Doug Ledford
upgrade doesn't trigger a firmware upgrade on the file system which can render the previous kernel unusable. -- Doug Ledford dledf...@redhat.com GPG KeyID: CFBFF194 http://people.redhat.com/dledford Infiniband specific RPMs available at http

Re: [ewg] RE: RHEL 5.3 and OFED 1.4.x

2009-01-28 Thread Doug Ledford
___ ewg mailing list ewg@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ewg -- Doug Ledford dledf...@redhat.com GPG KeyID: CFBFF194 http://people.redhat.com/dledford Infiniband specific RPMs available at http://people.redhat.com

Re: [ewg] RE: RHEL 5.3 and OFED 1.4.x

2009-01-28 Thread Doug Ledford
On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 09:38 -0600, Steve Wise wrote: Doug Ledford wrote: On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 16:07 -0600, Steve Wise wrote: I understand the desire to not release new features in a point release, but at the same time, these features are ready or near ready now. And prior

RE: [ewg] RE: OFED Jan 5, 2009 meeting minutes on OFED plans

2009-01-07 Thread Doug Ledford
, or slated for inclusion, then I don't include it in our kernel. Hence why xrc and rds support still isn't in our products. -- Doug Ledford dledf...@redhat.com GPG KeyID: CFBFF194 http://people.redhat.com/dledford Infiniband specific RPMs available at http

RE: [ewg] RE: OFED Jan 5, 2009 meeting minutes on OFED plans

2009-01-07 Thread Doug Ledford
@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ewg ___ ewg mailing list ewg@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ewg -- Doug Ledford dledf...@redhat.com GPG KeyID: CFBFF194

Re: [ewg] OFED-1.4 build issue

2009-01-04 Thread Doug Ledford
On Sun, 2009-01-04 at 11:12 +0200, Vladimir Sokolovsky wrote: Doug Ledford wrote: So I downloaded the OFED-1.4.tar.gz file, unpacked it, went into OFED-1.4/SRPMS and ran rpm2cpio on ofa_kernel-ofed-1.4.src.rpm, then ran cpio on the output, then unpacked the ofa_kernel-1.4.tar.gz file. I

[ewg] OFED-1.4 build issue

2009-01-03 Thread Doug Ledford
one. Does the ofa_kernel tarball properly patch up for other people? -- Doug Ledford dledf...@redhat.com GPG KeyID: CFBFF194 http://people.redhat.com/dledford Infiniband specific RPMs available at http://people.redhat.com/dledford/Infiniband

Re: [ewg] OFED-1.3.2-20080728-0355.tgz issues

2008-09-11 Thread Doug Ledford
as you'll just overwrite the last entry when you exit the loop. -- Doug Ledford [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG KeyID: CFBFF194 http://people.redhat.com/dledford Infiniband specific RPMs available at http://people.redhat.com/dledford/Infiniband signature.asc

Re: [ewg] OFED-1.3.2-20080728-0355.tgz issues

2008-09-11 Thread Doug Ledford
be referencing it, you'll be calculating it's address, saving that calculated result into a valid spot in the array, and then immediately overwriting that result with NULL. That's perfectly valid. -- Doug Ledford [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG KeyID: CFBFF194 http://people.redhat.com

Re: [ewg] RE: List of libraries in OFED

2008-07-27 Thread Doug Ledford
that don't understand they are private. -- Doug Ledford [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG KeyID: CFBFF194 http://people.redhat.com/dledford Infiniband specific RPMs available at http://people.redhat.com/dledford/Infiniband signature.asc Description

RE: [ewg] Re: [ofa-general] OFED Jan 28 meeting summary onRC3readiness

2008-01-31 Thread Doug Ledford
the released tarball. So, I currently have Roland's libibverbs, libmthca, and libmlx4. -- Doug Ledford [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG KeyID: CFBFF194 http://people.redhat.com/dledford Infiniband specific RPMs available at http://people.redhat.com/dledford/Infiniband

RE: [ewg] Re: [ofa-general] OFED Jan 28 meeting summary on RC3readiness

2008-01-30 Thread Doug Ledford
. As for the user space packages though, you guys *are* the upstream. There's no one to merge upstream to and very little oversight by anyone. So, it's entirely up to all of you just how much your package seems to be a feature of the day change-athon versus a solid, stable program. -- Doug Ledford [EMAIL

[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] OFED Jan 28 meeting summary on RC3 readiness

2008-01-29 Thread Doug Ledford
actually available on the download server. While that works for the rcs, they really need to have a tarball up there for final. -- Doug Ledford [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG KeyID: CFBFF194 http://people.redhat.com/dledford Infiniband specific RPMs available at http

Re: [ofa-general] Re: [ewg] New features for OFED 1.4

2007-11-11 Thread Doug Ledford
the build system and that's our release cycle. Tziporet ___ ewg mailing list ewg@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ewg -- Doug Ledford [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG KeyID: CFBFF194 http

[ewg] Re: Do you (Redhat) plan to integrate OFED 1.2.5 in the coming update of Redhat?

2007-08-22 Thread Doug Ledford
to download. Like Roland mentioned, what I need is a release, not a distribution. -- Doug Ledford [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG KeyID: CFBFF194 http://people.redhat.com/dledford Infiniband specific RPMs available at http://people.redhat.com/dledford/Infiniband

[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] Re: ofa_1_2_c_kernel 20070802-0201 daily build status

2007-08-14 Thread Doug Ledford
to have rhel4.5 resp sles10 ppc64 in their daily build runs too. Thanks Nam All of the kernel rpms from our U5 kernel have been on my web page in my sig for *ages*. All you need to do is download the needed rpms and install. -- Doug Ledford [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG KeyID: CFBFF194

[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] Re: ofa_1_2_c_kernel 20070802-0201 daily build status

2007-08-14 Thread Doug Ledford
machine you are on and installs it without involving the rpm database. If someone cares enough about SLES/RHEL on ppc support in OFED, she can upload the unpacked kernel devel headers for these distros to ofa server and we'll use these to cross-compile OFED kernel bits, nightly. -- Doug Ledford

[ewg] Re: RFC OFED-1.3 installation

2007-07-17 Thread Doug Ledford
process works, we really don't do releases all that often, and when we do, we can coordinate with the maintainer. -- Doug Ledford [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG KeyID: CFBFF194 http://people.redhat.com/dledford Infiniband specific RPMs available at http

[ewg] RE: RFC OFED-1.3 installation

2007-07-17 Thread Doug Ledford
that. It doesn't solve package version comparison issues (aka, telling which package is newer by the number), but it does help to solve identification issues. -- Doug Ledford [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG KeyID: CFBFF194 http://people.redhat.com/dledford Infiniband specific RPMs

[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] Re: RFC OFED-1.3 installation

2007-07-17 Thread Doug Ledford
as they can get to production is fine with me. The more issues they find while I'm still actually working on it and making new revisions, the less issues they'll find after I stupidly think I'm done. -- Doug Ledford [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG KeyID: CFBFF194 http://people.redhat.com