Hi,
I am pleased to announce that OFED-1.5.3.2 GA release is done
Notes:
The tarball is available on:
http://www.openfabrics.org/builds/ofed-1.5.3/release/OFED-1.5.3.2.tgz
To get BUILD_ID run ofed_info
Please report any issues in bugzilla http://bugs.openfabrics.org/ for
OFED 1.5.3.2
Regards,
Vladimir
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Release information:
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Linux Operating Systems:
- RedHat EL5 up5 2.6.18-194.el5
- RedHat EL5 up6 2.6.18-238.el5
- RedHat EL5 up7 2.6.18-274.el5
- RedHat EL6 2.6.32-71.el6
- RedHat EL6.1 2.6.32-131.0.15.el6
- SLES10 SP3 2.6.16.60-0.54-smp
- SLES10 SP4 2.6.16.60-0.85.1-smp
- SLES11 2.6.27.19-5-default
- SLES11 SP1 2.6.32.12-0.7-default
- CentOS5.5 2.6.18-194.el5
- OpenSuSE 11.2 2.6.31.5-0.1-default *
- kernel.org 2.6.29 - 2.6.39 *
* Minimal QA for these versions
CPU architectures:
- x86_64
- x86
- ppc64
- ia64
Main Changes from OFED 1.5.3.1
==============================
1. Add RHEL5.7 support
2. Add RHEL6.1 support
3. Add kernel.org 2.6.37 - 2.6.39 support
4. ib-bonding-0.9.0-43 (SLES10 SP4 support)
Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED)
Version 1.5.3.2
Release Notes
July 2011
===============================================================================
Table of Contents
===============================================================================
1. Overview, which includes:
- OFED Distribution Rev 1.5.3 Contents
- Supported Platforms and Operating Systems
- Supported HCA and RNIC Adapter Cards and Firmware Versions
- Tested Switch Platforms
- Third party Test Packages
- OFED sources
2. Main Changes from OFED 1.5.3.1
3. Main Changes from OFED 1.5.3
4. Main Changes from OFED 1.5.2
5. Main Changes from OFED 1.5.1
6. Main Changes from OFED 1.5
7. Main Changes from OFED 1.4.2
8. Known Issues
===============================================================================
1. Overview
===============================================================================
These are the release notes of OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED)
release 1.5.3. The OFED software package is composed of several software
modules,
and is intended for use on a computer cluster constructed as an InfiniBand
subnet or iWARP network.
Note: If you plan to upgrade the OFED package on your cluster, please upgrade
all of its nodes to this new version.
1.1 OFED 1.5.3 Contents
-----------------------
The OFED package contains the following components:
- OpenFabrics core and ULPs:
- IB HCA drivers (mthca, mlx4, qib, ehca)
- iWARP RNIC driver (cxgb3, nes)
- core
- Upper Layer Protocols: IPoIB, SDP, SRP Initiator and target, iSER
Initiator and target, RDS, uDAPL, qlgc_vnic and NFS-RDMA*.
- OpenFabrics utilities:
- OpenSM (OSM): InfiniBand Subnet Manager
- Diagnostic tools
- Performance tests
- MPI:
- OSU MPI stack supporting the InfiniBand and iWARP interface
- Open MPI stack supporting the InfiniBand and iWARP interface
- OSU MVAPICH2 stack supporting the InfiniBand and iWARP interface
- MPI benchmark tests (OSU benchmarks, Intel MPI benchmarks, Presta)
- Extra packages:
- open-iscsi: open-iscsi initiator with iSER support
- ib-bonding: Bonding driver for IPoIB interface
- infinipath-psm: Performance-Scaled Messaging API, an accelerated
interface to QLogic HCAs
- Sources of all software modules (under conditions mentioned in the modules'
LICENSE files)
- Documentation
Notes:
1. iSER Target and NFS-RDMA are of Beta quality.
2. All other OFED components are of production quality.
3. See release notes for each package in the docs directory.
4. Any Topspin copyright belongs to Cisco Systems, Inc.
5. NFS-RDMA will not be installed by default. See "Main Changes from
OFED 1.5.2"
1.2 Supported Platforms and Operating Systems
---------------------------------------------
o CPU architectures:
- x86_64
- x86
- ppc64
- ia64
o Linux Operating Systems:
- RedHat EL5 up5 2.6.18-194.el5
- RedHat EL5 up6 2.6.18-238.el5
- RedHat EL5 up7 2.6.18-274.el5
- RedHat EL6 2.6.32-71.el6
- RedHat EL6.1 2.6.32-131.0.15.el6
- SLES10 SP3 2.6.16.60-0.54-smp
- SLES10 SP4 2.6.16.60-0.85.1-smp
- SLES11 2.6.27.19-5-default
- SLES11 SP1 2.6.32.12-0.7-default
- CentOS5.5 2.6.18-194.el5
- OpenSuSE 11.2 2.6.31.5-0.1-default *
- kernel.org 2.6.29 - 2.6.39 *
* Minimal QA for these versions
1.3 HCAs and RNICs Supported
----------------------------
This release supports IB HCAs by Mellanox Technologies, Qlogic and IBM as
well as iWARP RNICs by Chelsio Communications and Intel.
o Mellanox Technologies HCAs (SDR, DDR and QDR Modes are Supported):
- InfiniHost (fw-23108 Rev 3.5.000)
- InfiniHost III Ex (MemFree: fw-25218 Rev 5.3.000
with memory: fw-25208 Rev 4.8.200)
- InfiniHost III Lx (fw-25204 Rev 1.2.000)
- ConnectX IB (fw-25408 Rev 2.8.0600)
For official firmware versions please see:
http://www.mellanox.com/content/pages.php?pg=firmware_download
o Qlogic HCAs:
- QLogic TrueScale DDR PCIe x8 and x16 HCAs
- QLogic TrueScale QDR PCIe x8 Gen2 HCAs
o IBM HCAs:
- GX Dual-port SDR 4x IB HCA
- GX Dual-port SDR 12x IB HCA
- GX Dual-port DDR 4x IB HCA
- GX Dual-port DDR 12x IB HCA
o Chelsio RNICs:
- S310/S320 10GbE Storage Accelerators
- R310/R320 10GbE iWARP Adapters
o Intel RNICs:
- NE020 10Gb iWARP Adapter
1.4 Switches Supported
----------------------
This release was tested with switches and gateways provided by the following
companies:
- Voltaire
- Qlogic
- Flextronics
- Oracle (Sun)
- Mellanox
1.5 Third Party Packages
------------------------
The following third party packages have been tested with OFED 1.5.3:
- Intel MPI, Version 3.2.2
- Intel MPI, Version 4.0 beta
1.6 OFED Sources
----------------
All sources are located under git://git.openfabrics.org/
Kernel sources: git://git.openfabrics.org/ofed_1_5/linux-2.6.git ofed_kernel_1_5
User level Sources are downloaded from http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/
as written in the BUILD_ID
The kernel sources are based on Linux 2.6.30 mainline kernel. Its patches
are included in the OFED sources directory.
For details see HOWTO.build_ofed.
===============================================================================
2. Main Changes from OFED 1.5.3.1
===============================================================================
1. Add RHEL5.7 support
2. Add RHEL6.1 support
3. Add kernel.org 2.6.37 - 2.6.39 support
4. ib-bonding-0.9.0-43 (SLES10 SP4 support)
===============================================================================
3. Main Changes from OFED 1.5.3
===============================================================================
1. Fix QIB support on SLES10 SP3
===============================================================================
4. Main Changes from OFED 1.5.2
===============================================================================
1. Updated packages:
dapl-2.0.32
librdmacm-1.0.14.1
ibacm-1.0.4
libibmad-1.3.7
libibumad-1.3.7
infiniband-diags-1.5.8
opensm-3.3.9
ibutils-1.5.7
libibverbs-1.1.4-1.22.g7257cd3.tar.gz
libmlx4-1.0.1-1.18.gb810a27.tar.gz
libnes-1.1.1
infinipath-psm-1.14
libsdp-1.1.108-0.15.gd7fdb72
mstflint-1.4-0.9.gc683022
sdpnetstat-1.60-0.3.gb6e7425
perftest-1.3.0-0.42.gf350d3d
- MPI
openmpi-1.4.3-1
mvapich2-1.6-2
2. Added RHEL6 support
3. Added RHEL5.6 support
4. Improved RAW Ethernet QP support (requires ConnectX/ConnectX2 FW >= 2.8.0600)
5. NFSoRDMA was removed from the list of packages in the install script to
prevent its installation by default.
To force NFSoRDMA installation, add the following lines to the ofed.conf:
nfsrdma=y
rnfs-utils=y
To get ofed.conf, run
# ./install.pl -p
After adding the lines above to ofed.conf, to install OFED run
# ./install.pl -c ofed.conf
===============================================================================
5. Main Changes from OFED 1.5.1
===============================================================================
1. Added RHEL5.5, SLES11 SP1 and kernel 2.6.33 support
2. /etc/modprobe.conf deprecated
ib_ipoib use /etc/modprobe.d/ib_ipoib.conf
ib_sdp use /etc/modprobe.d/ib_sdp.conf
mlx4_en use /etc/modprobe.d/mlx4_en.conf
3. Added RAW Ethernet QP support in libibverbs
4. Added multicast support in perftest
5. Added new package: ibacm. See ibacm_release_notes.txt
6. Added new package infinipath-psm.
7. Updated packages:
libibverbs to rev 1.1.4-0.14.gb6c138b
libehca to rev 1.2.2-0.1.g69e1a88
libmlx4 to rev 1.0-0.13.g4e5c43f
libnes to rev 1.1.0
librdmacm to rev 1.0.13
dapl to rev 2.0.30
compat-depl to rev 1.2.19
libsdp to rev 1.1.103
mstflint to rev 1.4-0.6.g63179f4
perftest to rev 1.3.0-0.27
rds-tools to rev 2.0.4
Management:
opensm to rev 3.3.7
libibmad to rev 1.3.6
libibumad to rev 1.3.6
infiniband-diags to rev 1.5.7
MPI:
openmpi to rev 1.4.2-1
mvapich2 to rev 1.5.1-2.p1
mpitests to rev 3.2-923
===============================================================================
6. Main Changes from OFED 1.5
===============================================================================
1. Added RoCEE support - see RoCEE_README.txt
2. Added enhanced atomic operations to ConnectX (kernel only).
See mlx4_release_notes.txt.
3. Updated Open MPI to rev 1.4.1-2ofed
4. Updated MVAPICH2 to rev 1.4.1
5. Updated DAPL to rev 2.0.27
6. Updated libnes to rev 1.0.1
7. Updated librdmacm to rev 1.0.11
8. Removed tvflash RPM
9. NFS-RDMA is not supported on SLES10 SP3
10. Fixed IPv6 support and IPv4 routing corner cases for RDMA CM
11. Bug fixes
===============================================================================
7. Main Changes from OFED 1.4.2
===============================================================================
Note: For details regarding the various changes, please see the release notes
for each package in the docs directory.
2.1 General changes
o Kernel code based on 2.6.30
o libraries location - all userspace libraries can be downloaded from
http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/
See BUILD_ID for exact locations
o Qlogic moved the low level driver from ipath to qib.
2.2 SDP
o Performance improvements
o Zero copy in beta level
2.3 uDAPL
o New UCM provider (ofa-v2-mlx4_0-1u) with IB UD-based CM per process.
It is more scalable than rdma_cm (cma) or socket cm (scm).
o Common code base with WinOF 2.1
o Bug fixes
2.4 perftest
o Renamed tests:
ib_rdma_bw -> rdma_bw
ib_rdma_lat -> rdma_lat
2.5 Management
o OpenSM
- Support for Mesh Analysis for LASH routing algorithm
- Reloadable OpenSM configuration (preliminary implementation)
- Routing paths sorted balancing (for UpDown and MinHops)
- Weighted LID matrices calculation (for UpDown, MinHop and DOR)
- I/O nodes connectivity (for FatTree)
2.6 MPI:
a. OSU MVAPICH 1.2.0
b. Open MPI 1.4
c. OSU MVAPICH2 1.4
d. MPI tests 3.2
2.7 iSER:
o Available on:
- kernel.org: 2.6.30 and higher
- RHEL5.4
2.8 NFS-RDMA
o Added support for RHEL5.4, SLES10 SP3, kernel.org 2.6.25 and 2.6.30.
Kernels 2.6.26 and 2.6.27 are not supported
o NFS-RDMA is in Beta level
===============================================================================
8. Known Issues
===============================================================================
The following is a list of general limitations and known issues of the various
components of the OFED 1.5.3 release.
1. When upgrading from an earlier OFED version, the installation script does
not stop the earlier OFED version prior to uninstalling it.
Workaround: Stop the old OFED stack (/etc/init.d/openibd stop) before
upgrading to OFED 1.5.3 or reboot the server after OFED installation.
2. Memory registration by the user is limited according to administrator
setting. See "Pinning (Locking) User Memory Pages" in OFED_tips.txt for
system configuration.
3. Fork support from kernel 2.6.12 and above is available provided
that applications do not use threads. fork() is supported as long as the
parent process does not run before the child exits or calls exec().
The former can be achieved by calling wait(childpid), and the latter can be
achieved by application specific means. The Posix system() call is
supported.
4. The qib driver is supported only on 64-bit platforms.
5. When installing OFED on OpenSuse or Ubuntu, use the --without-depcheck
option of the install.pl script.
6. IPoIB: brctl utilities do not work on IPoIB interfaces. The reason for that
is that these utilities support devices of type Ethernet only.
7. "openibd stop" can sometime fail with the error:
Unloading ib_cm [FAILED]
ERROR: Module ib_cm is in use by ib_ipoib
Workaround: run "openibd stop" again or remove ib_ipoib aliases from
/etc/modprobe.d/ib_ipoib.conf.
8. When working with ISCSI over IPoIB or mlx4_en, you must disable LRO (even
if IPoIB is set to connected mode). This is due to a bug in older kernels
which causes a kernel panic.
9. On SLES11, and in case uninstall is failing, check the error log and remove
the remaining RPMs manually using 'rpm -e <rpms list>'.
10. On SLES11, set allow_unsupported_modules parameter to 1 in file:
/etc/modprobe.d/unsupported-modules. Without this the modules will not
load.
11. iSER is supported on kernel.org 2.6.30, 2.6.31 and 2.6.32 only.
OFED-1.5.3 will not install iSER on other kernels, and the original iSER
module that comes with the Linux distribution will stop working due to a
mismatch in the symbols version.
12. On SLES10 SP3, the kernel 2.6.16.60-0.54.5 should be updated to
2.6.16.60-0.59.1 or later. The original kernel may cause kernel panic
during '/etc/init.d/openibd restart'.
13. ConnectX/ConnectX2 in VPI mode are not supported in PPC64
Note: See the release notes of each component for additional issues.
