On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Jack Morgenstein <[email protected]> wrote: > On Monday 27 April 2009 13:46, Moni Shoua wrote: >> So, Is there an easy way for upstream kernel users that want user space >> functionality? >> > Why can't they just install OFED? This affects ONLY the infiniband modules, > and has undergone > extensive QA on lots of platforms.
I'm not sure that replacing the distro-provided InfiniBand components by the kernel drivers included in OFED is always a good idea. The mainstream kernel namely contains some InfiniBand patches that are not present in OFED. As an example, commit 233e70f4228e78eb2f80dc6650f65d3ae3dbf17c was applied to Linus' tree on October 19, 2008. This patch simplifies the file API such that it is no longer possible that kernel code causes a memory leak by forgetting to evict a file from fasync lists. I could not find any trace of this patch in the OFED distribution -- not even in OFED-1.4.1-20090427-0600. See also: * http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/31/310 * http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.29.y.git;a=commitdiff;h=233e70f4228e78eb2f80dc6650f65d3ae3dbf17c Bart. _______________________________________________ general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
