Re: [ewg] Is ofed-3.5 and 1.5.4.1 compatible?
Hi Tziporet and Rupert, Our installation is all 1.5.4.1 today and we want to put 3.5 on a group of nodes, so I asked the question. Thanks much for the information! Cheers, Jay On 03/20/2013 11:22 AM, Rupert Dance wrote: Hello all, I asked one of my engineers to do a few basic interoperability tests and here is what he reported: + I re-installed OFED-1.5.4.1 on one system and had OFED-3.5 on another and tried ping; sftp, ib_read_bw; ssh between the two systems. They all seem to work without a problem. ++ This is far from exhaustive and I am sure there are features in 3.5 that are not supported in 1.5.4.1. But certainly IPoIB and basic RDMA operations seem to work well as did the OpenSM. Thanks Rupert -Original Message- From: Tziporet Koren [mailto:tzipo...@mellanox.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 4:11 AM To: Jay Lan; OpenFabrics EWG; Rupert Dance Subject: RE: [ewg] Is ofed-3.5 and 1.5.4.1 compatible? Verbs are not the same since in 1.5.4.1 we had XRC support in user space. Regarding protocols - IPoIB should be the same Not sure if it was tested. Maybe Rupert can tell Tziporet -Original Message- From: ewg-boun...@lists.openfabrics.org [mailto:ewg-boun...@lists.openfabrics.org] On Behalf Of Jay Lan Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 2:25 AM To: OpenFabrics EWG Subject: [ewg] Is ofed-3.5 and 1.5.4.1 compatible? Hi, Would it work if I connect 1.5.4.1 nodes and 3.5 nodes to same fabrics? Is there any change at protocol level that may break compatibility? Thanks, Jay ___ ewg mailing list ewg@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ewg ___ ewg mailing list ewg@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ewg
Re: [ewg] Is ofed-3.5 and 1.5.4.1 compatible?
Hello all, I asked one of my engineers to do a few basic interoperability tests and here is what he reported: + I re-installed OFED-1.5.4.1 on one system and had OFED-3.5 on another and tried ping; sftp, ib_read_bw; ssh between the two systems. They all seem to work without a problem. ++ This is far from exhaustive and I am sure there are features in 3.5 that are not supported in 1.5.4.1. But certainly IPoIB and basic RDMA operations seem to work well as did the OpenSM. Thanks Rupert -Original Message- From: Tziporet Koren [mailto:tzipo...@mellanox.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 4:11 AM To: Jay Lan; OpenFabrics EWG; Rupert Dance Subject: RE: [ewg] Is ofed-3.5 and 1.5.4.1 compatible? Verbs are not the same since in 1.5.4.1 we had XRC support in user space. Regarding protocols - IPoIB should be the same Not sure if it was tested. Maybe Rupert can tell Tziporet -Original Message- From: ewg-boun...@lists.openfabrics.org [mailto:ewg-boun...@lists.openfabrics.org] On Behalf Of Jay Lan Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 2:25 AM To: OpenFabrics EWG Subject: [ewg] Is ofed-3.5 and 1.5.4.1 compatible? Hi, Would it work if I connect 1.5.4.1 nodes and 3.5 nodes to same fabrics? Is there any change at protocol level that may break compatibility? Thanks, Jay ___ ewg mailing list ewg@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ewg ___ ewg mailing list ewg@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ewg
Re: [ewg] Is ofed-3.5 and 1.5.4.1 compatible?
Verbs are not the same since in 1.5.4.1 we had XRC support in user space. Regarding protocols - IPoIB should be the same Not sure if it was tested. Maybe Rupert can tell Tziporet -Original Message- From: ewg-boun...@lists.openfabrics.org [mailto:ewg-boun...@lists.openfabrics.org] On Behalf Of Jay Lan Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 2:25 AM To: OpenFabrics EWG Subject: [ewg] Is ofed-3.5 and 1.5.4.1 compatible? Hi, Would it work if I connect 1.5.4.1 nodes and 3.5 nodes to same fabrics? Is there any change at protocol level that may break compatibility? Thanks, Jay ___ ewg mailing list ewg@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ewg ___ ewg mailing list ewg@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ewg
[ewg] Is ofed-3.5 and 1.5.4.1 compatible?
Hi, Would it work if I connect 1.5.4.1 nodes and 3.5 nodes to same fabrics? Is there any change at protocol level that may break compatibility? Thanks, Jay ___ ewg mailing list ewg@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ewg
