RE: libmlx4 and libmlx5 git trees? Who is handling those?

2015-09-28 Thread Woodruff, Robert J
Jason wrote, >I was commenting specifically on the idea that we'd ever release a libverbs >that forced a kernel upgrade. I hope we all agree that is not acceptable. This means that user-space and kernel space packages can be released on separate schedules, so there is no need to tie the two toge

RE: libmlx4 and libmlx5 git trees? Who is handling those?

2015-09-28 Thread Woodruff, Robert J
Sean wrote, >The issue is that basically no one tests the releases of the packages. We assume that the maintainer of the package tests it before they release it :) The OFED testing then tests all the currently released packages as a bundle with a released kernel version backported to a distro

RE: libmlx4 and libmlx5 git trees? Who is handling those?

2015-09-28 Thread Woodruff, Robert J
On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 10:42:08AM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: >We are well past the point of doing experimental breaking stuff in the core >uapi libraries. If it is in the master git it should be shippable by a distro, >and it is so easy >to slap a version number on the HEAD if a distro/ofed/e

RE: libmlx4 and libmlx5 git trees? Who is handling those?

2015-09-28 Thread Woodruff, Robert J
On Mon, 28 Sep 2015, Christoph Lameter wrote: > Right. Its really nasty when you are trying to add features that require > libibverbs and libmlx? changes. Plus it may depend on kernel changes. On the other hand, combining everything into one package limits the ability of the maintainer of the i

RE: libmlx4 and libmlx5 git trees? Who is handling those?

2015-09-28 Thread Woodruff, Robert J
Doug Ledford wrote: >git://git.openfabrics.org/~yishaih/libmlx4.git >git://git.openfabrics.org/~eli/libmlx5.git The OFA maintainers list contains this for the maintainers of these trees. ibmlx4 (upstream): Yishai Hadas http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/mlx4 git://git.openfabrics.org/~yishai

RE: How to RoCE v2?

2015-07-13 Thread Woodruff, Robert J
Ram Amrani wrote, >In the latest OFED (3.18-rc3) I don't see any RoCE v2 code, albeit it being >introduce in 2014. How come? These patches have not yet been accepted upstream and since OFED now pulls the kernel code from upstream, It is not yet in OFED-3.18 that was based on the kernel.org 3.18

RE: [ANNOUNCE] OFED-3.5-rc2 is available

2012-10-03 Thread Woodruff, Robert J
I seem to be getting this compile error on sles 11 sp 2. /var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/compat-rdma-3.5/drivers/infiniband/ulp/srp/ib_srp.c:33:1: warning: "pr_fmt" redefined In file included from /var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/compat-rdma-3.5/include/linux/printk.h:7, from /usr/src/lin

RE: rapidio?

2012-04-25 Thread Woodruff, Robert J
Daniel wrote, >It's been a week since I posted this question. Being new to this list, I would >really appreciate some constructive responses... There are some companies that are using OFED over rapidio, they presented at the OFA workshop last year, but so far I do not think they have not open sou

RE: [RFC] - Proposal for new process for OFED releases

2011-12-01 Thread Woodruff, Robert J
Sean wrote, >> - OFED will offer only backports to the distros (no fixes) > I think this point needs to be clarified - at least to me anyway. :) What this means is that the OFED code base will be identical to what is included in the upstream kernel and libs. OFED will provide only backports to a

RE: [ANNOUNCE] OFED-1.5.3.2 GA is available

2011-07-26 Thread Woodruff, Robert J
Hi List, I just noticed a small bug in the release notes. It says that the code was tested with Intel MPI 4.0 beta and in fact I tested it with Intel MPI 4.0.2 GA version. Sorry for the error. woody -Original Message- From: linux-rdma-ow...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-rdma-ow...@vge

RE: Promiscuous mode support in IPoIB

2011-07-18 Thread Woodruff, Robert J
Devesh Sharma wrote, >Hello List, >Kindly someone help me on this. I need to know about promiscuous mode >support in IPoIB and have a confusion if it is possible at all on >IPoIB stack. If yes then How? I am not sure that it is supported, but Eli would know for sure. -- To unsubscribe from this

RE: compile ofed 1.5.3 against lustre kernel

2011-06-15 Thread Woodruff, Robert J
Michael wrote, >For those of us that are not hardcore kernel developers can you >explain what this change would actually do? I'm not sure i understand >how having a source tree with the patches already applied is any >different then taking the base kernel and applying a patch tree. But >then agai

RE: compile ofed 1.5.3 against lustre kernel

2011-06-15 Thread Woodruff, Robert J
Christoph wrote, >I surely wish this constant nightmare would go away. Could we please have >OFED trees against each kernel version in use somewhere so that we can >just do a git pull to get these into the respective trees? Other people have also asked for this, i.e., a source tree for each kerne

RE: [ewg] How to monitor traffic with IBoE/RoCEE?

2010-03-26 Thread Woodruff, Robert J
Pradeep wrote, >With IBoE/RoCEE, the traditional SM in IB clusters is not needed. Most of the >current >IB tools rely on the SM and PM to get packet and error statistics and so on. >These >won't be applicable with IBoE/RoCEE. netstat will have no value since the >kernel >has been bypassed. So

RE: OpenFabrics server is not responding

2009-12-23 Thread Woodruff, Robert J
Tziporet wrote, >Bill - do you know who is the administrator that can fix this >We cannot access git and also web site and ewg mailing list does not >work I cannot access it either. Does anyone know where it is physically located ? woody -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscr

RE: [Announce] rxe dev tree available (soft RDMAoE)

2009-12-16 Thread Woodruff, Robert J
What is soft RDMA over ethernet, does this mean it is RDMAoE that will run over any ethernet interface that is installed in the system ? woody -Original Message- From: linux-rdma-ow...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-rdma-ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of frank zago Sent: Wednesday, De

FW: Meeting invitation: OpenFabrics SC09 BOF

2009-11-17 Thread Woodruff, Robert J
Hi all, for those that cannot attend SC'09 but would like to attend the Open Fabrics BOF remotely, we will be braodcasting the BOF via webex. See below for the details on how to attend via webex. See you at the BOF, Bob Woodruff Topic: OpenFabrics SC09 BOF Date: Wednesday, November 18

RE: OFED 1.4.2 requires rebuild of kernel modules on each node

2009-10-22 Thread Woodruff, Robert J
Sending this to the EWG openfabrics list, since this seems to be an OFED build/installation issue rather than a general code problem. One thing that you might try is to instead of copying the entire build directory and re-runing ./install.pl -c ofed.conf on each system, instead, after building on