Re: [ewg] [PATCH 2/8 v3] ib_core: RDMAoE support only QP1

2009-07-14 Thread Eli Cohen
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 03:26:34PM -0400, Hal Rosenstock wrote: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Eli Cohen wrote: > > Since RDMAoE is using Ethernet as its link layer, there is no need for QP0. > > QP1 > > is still needed since it handles communications between CM agents. This > > patch > > wil

RE: [ofa-general] RE: [ewg] [PATCH 6/8 v3] IB/ipoib: restrict IPoIB to work on IB ports only

2009-07-14 Thread Liran Liss
This exaclty the same as for iWARP: IPoIB checks the node transport, and if it is != IB, it exists. For RDMAoE, we do the same check but at the port level. -Original Message- From: general-boun...@lists.openfabrics.org [mailto:general-boun...@lists.openfabrics.org] On Behalf Of Woodruff,

RE: [ofa-general] RE: [ewg] [PATCH 2/8 v3] ib_core: RDMAoE support onlyQP1

2009-07-14 Thread Liran Liss
S.B. --Liran > Trying to emulate IB for mad services is a total hack and not how this new transport should be added into the core. It should be it's own transport type, just like iWarp was added. > You should start with adding a new transport type to ib_verbs.h, e.g., LL: it is not a hack: RDMA

[ewg] Re: [PATCH v4] libibmad: Handle MAD redirection

2009-07-14 Thread Joachim Fenkes
Hal Rosenstock wrote on 08.07.2009 18:48:29: > > This patch should make its way into OFED 1.5... so who should pull it? > > You? Vlad? Someone not on CC? Whoever, please apply for OFED 1.5 -- > > thanks! > > Sasha is the management maintainer. Userspace trees for OFED 1.5 > haven't been created

Re: [ewg] [GIT PULL OFED-1.5] NFSRDMA bug fixes

2009-07-14 Thread Vladimir Sokolovsky
Jon Mason wrote: Hey Vlad, Please pull from ssh://v...@sofa.openfabrics.org/home/jon/scm/ofed_kernel-1.5.git dev It contains the following patches (notice that the RHEL5.4 patch is in this): Done, Regards, Vladimir ___ ewg mailing list ewg@lists

Re: [ewg] [GIT PULL OFED-1.4.2] NFSRDMA bug fixes

2009-07-14 Thread Vladimir Sokolovsky
Jon Mason wrote: Hey Vlad, Please pull for OFED 1.4.2 fixes ssh://v...@sofa.openfabrics.org/home/jon/scm/ofed_kernel-1.4.git dev It contains fixes for 1675, 1676, and 1677. It also contains a fix for a RPC encode/decode issue found on reiserfs (which has the stale file handle issues). I can

[ewg] Re: [PATCH] IB/qib: fix compiler errors for 2.6.30

2009-07-14 Thread Vladimir Sokolovsky
Ralph Campbell wrote: Vlad, Please pull: git://git.openfabrics.org/~ralphc/linux-2.6/.git ofed_kernel_1_5 This should fix the 2.6.30 build errors. commit 4047cc3120a7c9b36fbddc3158ae0c01ec6636d9 Author: Ralph Campbell (QLogic) Date: Thu Jul 9 15:47:02 2009 -0700 IB/qib: backport QIB fr

[ewg] Re: [PATCH OFED 1.5] install.pl: mark cxgb3 and nes as available

2009-07-14 Thread Vladimir Sokolovsky
Chien Tung wrote: Both cxgb3 and nes are compiling for OFED 1.5 so mark them as available. Also restore both userspace libraries for kernels other than 2.6.30. Signed-off-by: Chien Tung --- Applied, Thanks, Vladimir ___ ewg mailing list ewg@lis

Re: [ewg] [PATCH 2/8 v3] ib_core: RDMAoE support only QP1

2009-07-14 Thread Hal Rosenstock
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Woodruff, Robert J wrote: > Eli Cohen wrote, > >>Since RDMAoE is using Ethernet as its link layer, there is no need for QP0. >>QP1 >>is still needed since it handles communications between CM agents. This patch >>will create only QP1 for RDMAoE ports. > > > Trying

Re: [ewg] [PATCH 2/8 v3] ib_core: RDMAoE support only QP1

2009-07-14 Thread Hal Rosenstock
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 3:46 AM, Eli Cohen wrote: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 03:26:34PM -0400, Hal Rosenstock wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Eli Cohen wrote: >> > Since RDMAoE is using Ethernet as its link layer, there is no need for >> > QP0. QP1 >> > is still needed since it handles c

Re: [ofa-general] Re: [ewg] [PATCH 1/8 v3] ib_core: Add API to support RDMAoE

2009-07-14 Thread Hal Rosenstock
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 2:35 AM, Eli Cohen wrote: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 03:26:06PM -0400, Hal Rosenstock wrote: >> > >> > +enum ib_port_link_type ib_get_port_link_type(struct ib_device *device, u8 >> > port_num) >> > +{ >> > +       return device->get_port_link_type ? >> > +               devi

RE: [ofa-general] RE: [ewg] [PATCH 6/8 v3] IB/ipoib: restrict IPoIB to work on IB ports only

2009-07-14 Thread Liran Liss
Oops, I meant "exits" instead of "exists"... -Original Message- From: Liran Liss Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 11:16 AM To: 'Woodruff, Robert J'; Eli Cohen; Hefty, Sean; Roland Dreier Cc: ewg; general-list Subject: RE: [ofa-general] RE: [ewg] [PATCH 6/8 v3] IB/ipoib: restrict IPoIB to wor

Re: [ewg] [PATCH 2/8 v3] ib_core: RDMAoE support only QP1

2009-07-14 Thread Eli Cohen
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 07:15:44AM -0400, Hal Rosenstock wrote: > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 3:46 AM, Eli Cohen wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 03:26:34PM -0400, Hal Rosenstock wrote: > >> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Eli Cohen wrote: > >> > Since RDMAoE is using Ethernet as its link layer, the

Re: [ewg] [PATCH 2/8 v3] ib_core: RDMAoE support only QP1

2009-07-14 Thread Hal Rosenstock
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Eli Cohen wrote: > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 07:15:44AM -0400, Hal Rosenstock wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 3:46 AM, Eli Cohen wrote: >> > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 03:26:34PM -0400, Hal Rosenstock wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Eli Cohen wrote: >> >>

Re: [ewg] Wish to remove local sa patches from OFED 1.5

2009-07-14 Thread Tziporet Koren
Jack Morgenstein wrote: Hello all, We wish to remove the local sa patches from OFED 1.5. The local SA is disabled by default, and to the best of our knowledge, no one is using it, though it has been around since OFED 1.3. It has also never been accepted into the mainline kernel. We wish ther

Re: [ewg] Wish to remove local sa patches from OFED 1.5

2009-07-14 Thread Hal Rosenstock
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Tziporet Koren wrote: > Jack Morgenstein wrote: >> >> Hello all, >> >> We wish to remove the local sa patches from OFED 1.5.  The local SA is >> disabled by default, >> and to the best of our knowledge, no one is using it, though it has been >> around since OFED 1.3

[ewg] OFED Nightly OFED-1.5-20090714-0600 build break in infiniband-diags

2009-07-14 Thread Jon Mason
again? Thanks, Jon Distribution: CentOS 5.3 CPU type: x86_64 Linux kernel: 2.6.30 OFED version: OFED-1.5-20090714-0600 # ./install.pl -- 2,3 ... Failed to build infiniband-diags RPM See /tmp/OFED.7319.logs/infiniband-diags.rpmbuild.log # less /tmp/OFED.7319.logs/infiniband

Re: [ewg] OFED Nightly OFED-1.5-20090714-0600 build break in infiniband-diags

2009-07-14 Thread Sasha Khapyorsky
On 10:32 Tue 14 Jul , Jon Mason wrote: > > Can you regress the infiniband-diags RPM in the nightlies to the version > found in 07/02 until Sasha has it working again? Why should we regress things when we are even in pre-alpha phase yet? We need to fix problems instead. Sasha

Re: [ewg] OFED Nightly OFED-1.5-20090714-0600 build break in infiniband-diags

2009-07-14 Thread Jon Mason
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 07:09:49PM +0300, Sasha Khapyorsky wrote: > On 10:32 Tue 14 Jul , Jon Mason wrote: > > > > Can you regress the infiniband-diags RPM in the nightlies to the version > > found in 07/02 until Sasha has it working again? > > Why should we regress things when we are even in

RE: [ewg] Wish to remove local sa patches from OFED 1.5

2009-07-14 Thread Sean Hefty
>> Since Qlogic are using some of the APIs in these files it was decided not to >> remove them in 1.5 >> However Qlogic were requested to approach Sean and see if they can move >> their implementation to the new SA API he is developing now > >Has this new SA API been proposed to the list as yet (an

Re: [ewg] OFED Nightly OFED-1.5-20090714-0600 build break in infiniband-diags

2009-07-14 Thread Sasha Khapyorsky
On 11:26 Tue 14 Jul , Jon Mason wrote: > > If you want assistance with test compiling on certain architectures, > I'll be happy to help. Your reports are very helpful. Sasha ___ ewg mailing list ewg@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.or

RE: [ewg] [PATCH 2/8 v3] ib_core: RDMAoE support only QP1

2009-07-14 Thread Woodruff, Robert J
Hal wrote, >Unfortunately I don't think it's this simple although I wish it were. >IBXOE is on a per port rather than a per node basis which is a >different model than we've used for IB or iWARP. >-- Hal Yuk... Can the driver/hardware present itself to the upper core layers as two separate NIC

Re: [ewg] Wish to remove local sa patches from OFED 1.5

2009-07-14 Thread Tziporet Koren
Sean Hefty wrote: I am working on a userspace app that should help with scaling for some topologies, but I doubt it will work for all routing algorithms. I'm at least a couple weeks away from posting anything. I guess I didn't quite understood what Woody explained in the meeting Sorry abo

RE: [ewg] Wish to remove local sa patches from OFED 1.5

2009-07-14 Thread Woodruff, Robert J
Sorry, I did not explain it clearly, What I meant to say was that the new userspace module could work with the rdma_cm to provide better scaling than the local sa cache module that is in the kernel, and if it does, the local sa cache feature might not be needed anymore. woody -Original Me

Re: [ewg] OFED Nightly OFED-1.5-20090714-0600 build break in infiniband-diags

2009-07-14 Thread Tziporet Koren
Sasha Khapyorsky wrote: On 11:26 Tue 14 Jul , Jon Mason wrote: If you want assistance with test compiling on certain architectures, I'll be happy to help. Your reports are very helpful. was this issue resolved? Tziporet ___ ewg mai

RE: [ofa-general] RE: [ewg] [PATCH 2/8 v3] ib_core: RDMAoE support onlyQP1

2009-07-14 Thread Liran Liss
Hi Robert, Your suggestion to represent RDMAoE as a transport indeed makes the code simpler. Thus, we will have: switch(port_transport) { case RDMA_TRANSPORT_IB: ... break; case RDMA_TRANSPORT_RDMAOE: ... break; case RDMA_TRANSPORT_IWARP: ... break;

[ewg] [PATCH OFED-1.4.2] RDMA/nes: Make LRO as default feature

2009-07-14 Thread Faisal Latif
Make LRO as default feature Signed-off-by: Faisal Latif --- kernel_patches/fixes/nes_0340_lro_default.patch | 15 +++ 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 kernel_patches/fixes/nes_0340_lro_default.patch diff --git a/kernel_patches/fixes/nes_0340_

Re: [ewg] Wish to remove local sa patches from OFED 1.5

2009-07-14 Thread Hal Rosenstock
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Woodruff, Robert J wrote: > Sorry, I did not explain it clearly, > > What I meant to say was that the new userspace > module could work with the rdma_cm to provide > better scaling than the local sa cache module > that is in the kernel, and if it does, the > local s

[ewg] [PATCH OFED-1.4.2] RDMA/nes: fix qp refcount during disconnect

2009-07-14 Thread Faisal Latif
qp was accessed after it got freed from disconnect task handling causing system crash. Now we increment qp's refcount before queue_work() and decrementing it after it is complete. Signed-off-by: Faisal Latif --- kernel_patches/fixes/nes_0350_qp_refcount.patch | 23 +++

RE: [ewg] Wish to remove local sa patches from OFED 1.5

2009-07-14 Thread Woodruff, Robert J
I'll let Sean explain it, but it is a user space daemon that uses an IB multicast scheme to derive path record information. The rdma_cm can use this rather than having to go to the SM to get path records, which we know does not scale. Sean can provide more details. -Original Message-

[ewg] EWG/OFED meeting minutes for July 13, 2009

2009-07-14 Thread Tziporet Koren
These are the meeting minutes for EWG/OFED meeting for July 13 09 Meeting summary === 1. OFED 1.5 alpha release is still not ready due to compilation issues 2. OFED 1.4.2: Bug fixes will be submitted soon. RC is expected this week and GA next week. Details: 1. OFED 1.5 alph

Re: [ewg] OFED Nightly OFED-1.5-20090714-0600 build break in infiniband-diags

2009-07-14 Thread Sasha Khapyorsky
On 22:59 Tue 14 Jul , Tziporet Koren wrote: > > was this issue resolved? Yes. Sasha ___ ewg mailing list ewg@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ewg