On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 06:53:44PM -0400, John Morrissey wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 06:38:32PM -0400, John Morrissey wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 06:05:32PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 12:48:55PM -0400, John Morrissey wrote: > > > > Bastian, I'm happy to help, so please let me know if there's anything I > > > > can > > > > do. > > > > > > As the lustre client support in 3.16 is broken, could you review the > > > changes in 3.17 and see if a backport looks reasonable? > > > > It seems the client is broken on systems with more than one CPU, which I > > kludged around with 'cpu_npartitions=1' - is that the breakage you're > > talking about? I haven't had a chance to look at or try 3.17 yet. > > I looked through the changes in the Lustre client between 3.16 and 3.17, > there were a few bugfixes, but mostly stylistic changes. It's a clean > backport with the addition of the attached patch, to account for the > hlist_add_ API changes. > > I built backported 3.16 kernel packages and did some basic tests on a > mounted Lustre filesystem, which seemed fine. > > > > Also a test setup with some rhel/centos 6 server would be helpful. > > > > Will do. I'm actually working with Intel to do some benchmarking with > > their Amazon Web Services offering for Lustre, which runs CentOS 6 on the > > server. > > Are you looking for access to a test setup with CentOS 6-based Lustre > servers, or someone to test the Debian kernel's Lustre client with CentOS > 6? > > Like I said, I did some basic smoke tests with the Lustre client in 3.17 > (and that version of the client backported to 3.16). I might be able to > make a Lustre server setup available for a short period (a week or so), or > I could run some other tests.
Hi Ben, Bastian, is there anything else I can help with on this? It'd be great to have the mainline Lustre client working out of the box on jessie. -john _______________________________________________ Pkg-lustre-maintainers mailing list Pkg-lustre-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-lustre-maintainers