On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Tziporet Koren <tzipo...@mellanox.com>wrote:
> > We propose a new process for the OFED releases starting from next OFED > release: > - OFED content will be the relevant kernel.org modules and user space > released packages > - OFED will offer only backports to the distros (no fixes) > - OFED package will be used for easy installation of all packages in a > friendly manner > > The main goals of this change: > 1. Ensure OFED and the upstream kernel are the same > 2. Provide customers a way to use the new features in latest kernels on > existing distros > 3. OFED qualification will contribute to the stability of the upstream code > > We think that at this point of the RDMA technology maturity this is the > right way to go. > In this way OFED is not conflicting with the kernel or the distros, and > still provide a valuable value for early adopters of new features. > > Versions: > We suggest that the OFED version will be the same as kernel.org > For example, for kernel 3.2 the OFED release would be OFED-3.2. > This would make it easy for people to associate the OFED code with the > corresponding kernel.org code. > > Some open questions that we should consider: > - How to handle experimental features? > - Need to follow up kernel stable releases if bug fixes are relevant to > OFA modules > - Should we have a release for every kernel release (I think yes) > - What should we do with modules like SDP that are not in kernel? > > Comments and responses are welcome > Personally I would appreciate it a lot if everything that is not a kernel module would be moved out of the kernel-ib RPM. That would make it a lot easier to use the OFED user space components in combination with upstream or distro-provided kernel IB modules. The relevant files are: # rpm -ql kernel-ib | grep -v lib/modules /etc/infiniband /etc/infiniband/connectx.conf /etc/infiniband/info /etc/infiniband/openib.conf /etc/init.d/openibd /etc/modprobe.d/ib_ipoib.conf /etc/modprobe.d/mlx4_en.conf /etc/udev/rules.d/90-ib.rules /sbin/connectx_port_config /sbin/sysctl_perf_tuning /usr/bin/ibdev2netdev Bart.
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