Re: [ewg] [GIT PULL compat-rdma] qib for OFED 4.8

2017-06-29 Thread Woodruff, Robert J
I know that DDN really wants to hold the release until a fix is available. I am personally OK with just documenting the known issues for now and fixing them in OFED-4.8-1 as I know there are some people that want to use what is there now and do not care about SRP. What do others think ?

Re: [ewg] [GIT PULL compat-rdma] qib for OFED 4.8

2017-06-29 Thread Woodruff, Robert J
>All, >I do object. I do not see the sense in releasing OFED 4.8 where it completely >breaks the functionality of the previous OFED release. I'd like to see the >issues fixed before the release of OFED 4.8. Well the best way to get it fixed is do the work yourself. Port the upstream fixes

Re: [ewg] [GIT PULL compat-rdma] qib for OFED 4.8

2017-06-29 Thread Vladimir Sokolovsky
Hi Marty, First, the issue should be fixed in the latest upstream kernel (4.12-rc7). Once the fix is submitted upstream it can be integrated into OFED-4.8. Regards, Vladimir On 06/29/2017 09:20 PM, Marty Schlining wrote: All, I do object. I do not see the sense in releasing OFED 4.8 where

Re: [ewg] [GIT PULL compat-rdma] qib for OFED 4.8

2017-06-29 Thread Marty Schlining
All, I do object. I do not see the sense in releasing OFED 4.8 where it completely breaks the functionality of the previous OFED release. I'd like to see the issues fixed before the release of OFED 4.8. I understand that there is a bandwidth issue from the maintainer. How could I be of

Re: [ewg] [GIT PULL compat-rdma] qib for OFED 4.8

2017-06-29 Thread Davis, Arlin R
All, Here is a quick summary of OFED 4.8 and SRP blocking bugs. Please correct/comment if I have it wrong. - SL7.2 and SL7.3 SRP support is a must for DDN, need latest upstream SRP 4.11 fixes - No resources available to backport or integrate the SRP 4.11 base or fixes into OFED 4.8 -