Michael: Wait, why are you disabling usnic?

Please don't penalize usNIC because of Intel's PSM issues.



> On Sep 4, 2015, at 9:29 AM, Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org> wrote:
> 
> Umm…why would USNIC depend on libpsm_infinipath?? Jeff or Dave - is that true?
> 
> 
> 
>> On Sep 4, 2015, at 5:57 AM, Michal Schmidt <mschm...@redhat.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On 09/03/2015 03:47 PM, Ralph Castain wrote:
>>> I guess I didn’t make it clear in my prior comment, so let me try
>>> again. I understand about dlopen and the fix that George proposed -
>>> we had internally discussed this as well. However, the questions that
>>> raises are:
>>> 
>>> 1. how does the distro (Michal) decide which PSM module to disable by
>>> default in their package?
>> 
>> In the RHEL package I have disabled PSM2 by default in
>> openmpi-mca-params.conf:
>> 
>> # Disable the psm2 MTL by default.
>> # Workaround for https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1259835
>> # This avoids a conflict between libpsm2.so.2 and libpsm_infinipath.so.1.
>> mtl = ^psm2
>> # If psm2 is needed, comment out the above line and uncomment
>> # the following two lines. This will disable MCAs that are known to
>> # depend on libpsm_infinipath.so.1:
>> #   mtl = ^psm,ofi
>> #   btl = ^usnic
>> 
>>> 2. how does the user “discover” that their fabric has automatically
>>> been disabled, especially since this has never been the case before?
>> 
>> There will be a release note.
>> OmniPath was not previously supported in RHEL at all, so it's not like
>> I'm disabling something that used to work.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Michal
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