Re: [openib-general] Interrupt Threshold Rate equivalent in Infiniband NIC

2006-08-29 Thread harish
Hi Roland, Thanks. I guess then the only neat solution is NAPI. I shall keep you posted if we can get NAPI implemented in the meanwhile. thanks, harishOn 8/29/06, Roland Dreier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: harish> Hi Roland, I was hoping that the function will take careharish> of that by int

Re: [openib-general] why sdp connections cost so much memory

2006-08-29 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
We will have a work-around in OFED 1.1. Quoting r. zhu shi song <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Subject: Re: why sdp connections cost so much memory If it's spec bug is it difficult to solve? And how long will it take you to complete the bugfix? I really hope SDP can work as stably as TCP. zhu --- "Mic

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH ] RFC IB/cm do not track remote QPN in timewait state

2006-08-29 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoting r. Sean Hefty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Subject: Re: [PATCH ] RFC IB/cm do not track remote QPN in timewait state > > Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > >>If we completely ignore timewait, what conditions are required to have a > >>problem > >>occur? > > > > Outstanding packets with PSNs and QP n

Re: [openib-general] why sdp connections cost so much memory

2006-08-29 Thread zhu shi song
If it's spec bug is it difficult to solve? And how long will it take you to complete the bugfix? I really hope SDP can work as stably as TCP. zhu --- "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did - this is the spec bug we are discussing with > Sean. > > Quoting r. zhu shi song <[EM

[openib-general] Mt Knox Datacenter in Franklin TN

2006-08-29 Thread dfrench
Can you please help me to contact your Information Technology Director? My company has just opened a new computer datacenter in Franklin, TN for the purpose of providing disaster recovery, business continuity, and outsourcing services to small and medium size businesses in the Nashville area. Th

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH] opensm: truncate log file when fs is overflowed

2006-08-29 Thread Sasha Khapyorsky
On 18:54 Tue 29 Aug , Hal Rosenstock wrote: > On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 18:25, Doug Ledford wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 15:13 -0400, Hal Rosenstock wrote: > > > On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 11:21, Greg Lindahl wrote: > > > > On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 06:28:06PM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: > > > > > > >

Re: [openib-general] Interrupt Threshold Rate equivalent in Infiniband NIC

2006-08-29 Thread Roland Dreier
harish> Hi Roland, I was hoping that the function will take care harish> of that by introducing some kind of timer since last harish> notification. The logic I had in mind was that the harish> notification is triggered in either of the two events is harish> true: -> We have

Re: [openib-general] Interrupt Threshold Rate equivalent in Infiniband NIC

2006-08-29 Thread harish
Hi Roland,I was hoping that the function will take care of that by introducing some kind of timer since last notification. The logic I had in mind was that the notification is triggered in either of the two events is true: ->We have 10+ completions or->Time since last notification > (some specified

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH] opensm: libibmad: rpc API which supports more than one ports.

2006-08-29 Thread Sasha Khapyorsky
Hi Hal, On 20:09 Tue 29 Aug , Hal Rosenstock wrote: > Hi Sasha, > > On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 09:17, Sasha Khapyorsky wrote: > > This provides RPC like API which may work with several ports. > > I think you mean "can work" rather "may work" :-) Yes. Some limitation we will have from libumad -

Re: [openib-general] Interrupt Threshold Rate equivalent in Infiniband NIC

2006-08-29 Thread Roland Dreier
harish> Hi Roland, As regards the CQ notification frequency, I harish> noticed that the function req_ncomp_notif used by harish> ib_req_ncom_notif is not implemented yet. I was hoping harish> that if this was implemented, I would just use harish> ib_req_ncom_notif with a count o

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH] opensm: libibmad: rpc API which supports more than one ports.

2006-08-29 Thread Hal Rosenstock
Hi Sasha, On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 09:17, Sasha Khapyorsky wrote: > This provides RPC like API which may work with several ports. I think you mean "can work" rather "may work" :-) > Signed-off-by: Sasha Khapyorsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > > libibmad/include/infiniband/mad.h |9 +++ > libib

Re: [openib-general] Interrupt Threshold Rate equivalent in Infiniband NIC

2006-08-29 Thread harish
Hi Roland,As regards the CQ notification frequency, I noticed that the function req_ncomp_notif used by ib_req_ncom_notif is not implemented yet. I was hoping that if this was implemented, I would just use ib_req_ncom_notif with a count of 10 in place of ib_req_com_notif.  Please share your comment

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH 1 of 23] IB/ipath - More changes to support InfiniPath on PowerPC 970 systems

2006-08-29 Thread Brendan Cully
On Friday, 25 August 2006 at 13:19, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: > On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 12:45 -0700, Roland Dreier wrote: > > How did you generate these patches? > > Using Mercurial. > > > because the line > > > > diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/Makefile > > b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH] opensm: truncate log file when fs is overflowed

2006-08-29 Thread Hal Rosenstock
On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 18:25, Doug Ledford wrote: > On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 15:13 -0400, Hal Rosenstock wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 11:21, Greg Lindahl wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 06:28:06PM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: > > > > > > > I would definitely put the option in, and in fact would

Re: [openib-general] Interrupt Threshold Rate equivalent in Infiniband NIC

2006-08-29 Thread Roland Dreier
harish> Hi Roland, Thanks a lot for the prompt response. Could you harish> please let me know as to what is the expected time frame harish> for having NAPI for IPoIB implemented. Also as regards to harish> the first question, would it make sense to play around harish> with the

Re: [openib-general] Interrupt Threshold Rate equivalent in Infiniband NIC

2006-08-29 Thread harish
Hi Roland,Thanks a lot for the prompt response. Could you please let me know as to what is the expected time frame for having NAPI for IPoIB implemented.  Also as regards to the first question, would it make sense to play around with the cq notification frequency. Will it help to reduce the CPU uti

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH] opensm: truncate log file when fs is overflowed

2006-08-29 Thread Hal Rosenstock
On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 17:59, Sasha Khapyorsky wrote: > On 17:03 Tue 29 Aug , Hal Rosenstock wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 15:01, Sasha Khapyorsky wrote: > > > > > > I'd prefer an incremental one off the last patch related to this if that > > > > isn't too much work as I'm close to committin

Re: [openib-general] Interrupt Threshold Rate equivalent in Infiniband NIC

2006-08-29 Thread Roland Dreier
harish> Hi, The interruptThresholdRate module parameter allows you harish> to control the maximum number of interrupts/sec for an harish> e1000 Intel NIC for example. Is there an equivalent harish> parameter for Infiniband NICs. I am using a Mellanox harish> Infiniband NIC. Plea

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH] opensm: truncate log file when fs is overflowed

2006-08-29 Thread Doug Ledford
On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 15:13 -0400, Hal Rosenstock wrote: > On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 11:21, Greg Lindahl wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 06:28:06PM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: > > > > > I would definitely put the option in, and in fact would default it to > > > *NOT* truncate. > > > > I agree. I ha

[openib-general] compile problems suse 10.1 on x86_64

2006-08-29 Thread Rene Salmon
Hello, Trying to build OFED-1.0.tgz on a suse 10.1 x86_64 box with kernel 2.6.16.21-0.13. I am using the build.sh script but it stops while building the kernel modules. build.sh fails with this message: error: too few arguments to function 'sk_eat_skb' From what I can tell there is patch f

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH] opensm: truncate log file when fs is overflowed

2006-08-29 Thread Sasha Khapyorsky
On 17:03 Tue 29 Aug , Hal Rosenstock wrote: > On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 15:01, Sasha Khapyorsky wrote: > > > > I'd prefer an incremental one off the last patch related to this if that > > > isn't too much work as I'm close to committing the previous one now (and > > > it'd be more work to start ov

[openib-general] Interrupt Threshold Rate equivalent in Infiniband NIC

2006-08-29 Thread harish
Hi,The interruptThresholdRate module parameter allows you to control the maximum number of interrupts/sec for an e1000 Intel NIC for example. Is there an equivalent parameter for Infiniband NICs. I am using a Mellanox Infiniband NIC. Please let me know if you need any more information. Noticed from

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH] opensm: truncate log file when fs is overflowed

2006-08-29 Thread Hal Rosenstock
On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 15:01, Sasha Khapyorsky wrote: > > I'd prefer an incremental one off the last patch related to this if that > > isn't too much work as I'm close to committing the previous one now (and > > it'd be more work to start over on this). > > Ok. There is: > > > Optional log file

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH ] RFC IB/cm do not track remote QPN in timewait state

2006-08-29 Thread Sean Hefty
Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >>If we completely ignore timewait, what conditions are required to have a >>problem >>occur? > > Outstanding packets with PSNs and QP numbers coinside between the 2 > connections. > Look for "Stale packet" in IB spec. From what I can tell, a QP will receive an incom

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH] opensm: option to limit size of OpenSM log file

2006-08-29 Thread Hal Rosenstock
On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 17:18, Sasha Khapyorsky wrote: > Hi Hal, > > There is new option which specified max size of OpenSM log file. The > default is '0' (not-limited). Please note osm_log_init() has new > parameter now. > > We already saw the problems with FS overflowing in real life - we may > w

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH] libmthca: include stddef.h in mthca.h for SLES10 compilations

2006-08-29 Thread Roland Dreier
> --- l/src/userspace/libmthca/src/mthca.h (revision 7569) > +++ l/src/userspace/libmthca/src/mthca.h (working copy) > @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ > #ifndef MTHCA_H > #define MTHCA_H > > +#include > #include > #include svn blame shows me that mthca.h has included stddef.h since r88

[openib-general] [Bug 214] IB Stack ASSERTS while handling stale connections.

2006-08-29 Thread bugzilla-daemon
http://openib.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=214 [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What|Removed |Added Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution|

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH] osm: handle local events

2006-08-29 Thread Sasha Khapyorsky
On 19:39 Tue 29 Aug , Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > Quoting r. Sasha Khapyorsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Assuming I disconnect and re-connect the cable, does not > > > SM want to know and try bringing the logical link up? > > > > AFAIK OpenSM does not detect the local port disconnection explic

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH ] RFC IB/cm do not track remote QPN in timewait state

2006-08-29 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoting r. Sean Hefty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Subject: Re: [PATCH ] RFC IB/cm do not track remote QPN in timewait state > > Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > Hmm. But you need timewait already after you get to RTR, right? > > The active side looks fine. The passive side can enter timewait without >

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH] opensm: truncate log file when fs is overflowed

2006-08-29 Thread Hal Rosenstock
Hi Sasha, On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 14:15, Sasha Khapyorsky wrote: > On 18:28 Sun 27 Aug , Doug Ledford wrote: > > On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 20:18 +0300, Sasha Khapyorsky wrote: > > > On 13:01 Sun 20 Aug , Hal Rosenstock wrote: > > > > Hi Sasha, > > > > > > > > On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 12:05, Sasha

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH] osm: TRIVIAL code cleanup

2006-08-29 Thread Hal Rosenstock
On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 04:11, Yevgeny Kliteynik wrote: > Hi Hal. > > I noticed that there are some unused defaults: > OSM_DEFAULT_MGRP_MTU and OSM_DEFAULT_MGRP_RATE. > The corresponding values in the code are hadcoded. > > Fixed the code to use these defaults, and updated the > OSM_DEFAULT_MGRP

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH ] RFC IB/cm do not track remote QPN in timewait state

2006-08-29 Thread Sean Hefty
Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > Hmm. But you need timewait already after you get to RTR, right? The active side looks fine. The passive side can enter timewait without moving through RTS if it gets an RTU timeout. I'm not sure how much going into timewait really helps in this case though. If we c

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH] osm: TRIVIAL fix in usage message

2006-08-29 Thread Hal Rosenstock
On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 13:39, Hal Rosenstock wrote: > On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 10:50, Yevgeny Kliteynik wrote: > > Hi Hal. > > > > This patch is just fixing some error in the OSM usage message. > > Instead of old '-vf' option, there should be '-D'. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Yevgeny > > > > Signed-off

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH] osm: TRIVIAL fix in usage message

2006-08-29 Thread Hal Rosenstock
On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 10:50, Yevgeny Kliteynik wrote: > Hi Hal. > > This patch is just fixing some error in the OSM usage message. > Instead of old '-vf' option, there should be '-D'. > > Thanks. > > Yevgeny > > Signed-off-by: Yevgeny Kliteynik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks. Applied (to both tru

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH ] RFC IB/cm do not track remote QPN in timewait state

2006-08-29 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoting r. Sean Hefty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Subject: Re: [PATCH ] RFC IB/cm do not track remote QPN in timewait state > > Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > >>Verbs gets local_ack_timeout through qp_attr.timeout when modifying the QP > >>to > >>RTS. > > > > > > Isn't that RTR? > > It's the transiti

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH ] RFC IB/cm do not track remote QPN in timewait state

2006-08-29 Thread Sean Hefty
Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >>Verbs gets local_ack_timeout through qp_attr.timeout when modifying the QP to >>RTS. > > > Isn't that RTR? It's the transition from RTR to RTS. > So it seems we won't need any API changes. This begins to look good. > I waner what Roland and other low level driver ma

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH] opensm: truncate log file when fs is overflowed

2006-08-29 Thread Hal Rosenstock
On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 11:21, Greg Lindahl wrote: > On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 06:28:06PM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: > > > I would definitely put the option in, and in fact would default it to > > *NOT* truncate. > > I agree. I have never seen any other daemon with a logfile do this, > why are we out

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH ] RFC IB/cm do not track remote QPN in timewait state

2006-08-29 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoting r. Sean Hefty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Subject: Re: [PATCH ] RFC IB/cm do not track remote QPN in timewait state > > Sean Hefty wrote: > > How would the driver determine how long the QP should remain in timewait > > The spec isn't totally clear to me on this, but here's what I can gather: >

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH] opensm: truncate log file when fs is overflowed

2006-08-29 Thread Sasha Khapyorsky
On 08:21 Tue 29 Aug , Greg Lindahl wrote: > On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 06:28:06PM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: > > > I would definitely put the option in, and in fact would default it to > > *NOT* truncate. > > I agree. I have never seen any other daemon with a logfile do this, OpenSM is not a re

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH] opensm: truncate log file when fs is overflowed

2006-08-29 Thread Sasha Khapyorsky
On 14:18 Tue 29 Aug , Hal Rosenstock wrote: > Hi Sasha, > > On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 14:15, Sasha Khapyorsky wrote: > > On 18:28 Sun 27 Aug , Doug Ledford wrote: > > > On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 20:18 +0300, Sasha Khapyorsky wrote: > > > > On 13:01 Sun 20 Aug , Hal Rosenstock wrote: > > > > >

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH ] RFC IB/cm do not track remote QPN in timewait state

2006-08-29 Thread Sean Hefty
Sean Hefty wrote: > How would the driver determine how long the QP should remain in timewait The spec isn't totally clear to me on this, but here's what I can gather: timewait = packet lifetime x 2 + remote ack delay local_ack_timeout (in CM REQ) = packet lifetime x 2 + local ack delay Verbs get

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH] opensm: truncate log file when fs is overflowed

2006-08-29 Thread Greg Lindahl
On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 06:28:06PM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: > I would definitely put the option in, and in fact would default it to > *NOT* truncate. I agree. I have never seen any other daemon with a logfile do this, why are we out to surprise the admin? The admin might want the start of the l

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH] opensm: truncate log file when fs is overflowed

2006-08-29 Thread Sasha Khapyorsky
On 18:28 Sun 27 Aug , Doug Ledford wrote: > On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 20:18 +0300, Sasha Khapyorsky wrote: > > On 13:01 Sun 20 Aug , Hal Rosenstock wrote: > > > Hi Sasha, > > > > > > On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 12:05, Sasha Khapyorsky wrote: > > > > In case when OpenSM log file overflows filesystem

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH ] RFC IB/cm do not track remote QPN in timewait state

2006-08-29 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoting r. Sean Hefty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Subject: Re: [openib-general] [PATCH ] RFC IB/cm do not track remote QPN in > timewait state > > Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > >>I've thought about this too, and I think this may end up making the most > >>sense. > >>How would the driver determine how l

Re: [openib-general] libibcm can't open /dev/infiniband/ucm0

2006-08-29 Thread Sean Hefty
>Looked into the openIB kernel sources and found that the minor number >seems to be wrong in the README file. With a minor number "224" and the >creation like: > > "mknod /dev/infiniband/ucm0 c 231 224" The README file was never updated when the userspace CM added per device handling. I've

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH] libibcm: Need to include stddef.h in cm.c for SLES10 compilations

2006-08-29 Thread Sean Hefty
Jack Morgenstein wrote: > Fix compilation on SLES10: > cm.c uses offsetof, so it must include stddef.h Thanks - committed in 9150. - Sean ___ openib-general mailing list openib-general@openib.org http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To un

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH] libibsa: userspace SA query and multicast support

2006-08-29 Thread Sean Hefty
Hal Rosenstock wrote: > OK. So shouldn't IBV_SA_METHOD_SEND be removed from sa_net.h ? I was just defining the well known methods. I can remove this. > By raw access, do you mean SEND_MAD operation ? > > How do those applications gain this privilege ? The kernel module exports two files to pe

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH] libibcm: modify API to support multi-threaded event processing

2006-08-29 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoting r. Sean Hefty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Subject: Re: [PATCH] libibcm: modify API to support multi-threaded event > processing > > Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > I think offsetof is defined in stddef.h, so you must include that. > > Dotan, > > Can you see if adding this include works for you

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH] libibsa: userspace SA query and multicast support

2006-08-29 Thread Hal Rosenstock
On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 11:58, Sean Hefty wrote: > >Why SEND ? In general, couldn't it be used like SET/DELETE (in addition > >to being used like the GET method variants) ? Also, the SA doesn't use > >the SEND method. > > The latest version of the patch only allows GET or GET_TABLE for PathRecords >

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH] osm: handle local events

2006-08-29 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoting r. Sasha Khapyorsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Assuming I disconnect and re-connect the cable, does not > > SM want to know and try bringing the logical link up? > > AFAIK OpenSM does not detect the local port disconnection explicitly > (however will detect this at next periodic sweep if suc

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH ] RFC IB/cm do not track remote QPN in timewait state

2006-08-29 Thread Sean Hefty
Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >>I've thought about this too, and I think this may end up making the most >>sense. >>How would the driver determine how long the QP should remain in timewait, > > > Need to look into this - likely we can just add a call for that. > Roland? The Intel gen1 code passed t

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH] libibcm: modify API to support multi-threaded event processing

2006-08-29 Thread Sean Hefty
Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > I think offsetof is defined in stddef.h, so you must include that. Dotan, Can you see if adding this include works for you? I just re-tested the build on my system, and it worked fine without it (gcc 3.3.3). Jack posted a patch for this earlier if you need one. -

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH ] RFC IB/cm do not track remote QPN in timewait state

2006-08-29 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoting r. Sean Hefty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Subject: Re: [PATCH ] RFC IB/cm do not track remote QPN in timewait state > > >Here's an idea: > >how about we move the whole timewait thing to low level driver, > >starting timer automatically upon QP destroy? > > I've thought about this too, and I th

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH] osm: handle local events

2006-08-29 Thread Sasha Khapyorsky
On 21:41 Sat 26 Aug , Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > Quoting r. Sasha Khapyorsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Subject: Re: [openib-general] [PATCH] osm: handle local events > > > > On 16:28 Thu 24 Aug , Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > Quoting r. Yevgeny Kliteynik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Inde

Re: [openib-general] [PATCHES] for 2.6.19

2006-08-29 Thread Sean Hefty
>I handled it all myself this time, but in the future it is easier for >me if each patch is inline in a separate email. A couple of other >things that would also make my life easier: That's not a problem. I think in the past I've just referred you to the svn revision numbers. I was just trying

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH] libibcm: modify API to support multi-threaded event processing

2006-08-29 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoting r. Sean Hefty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Subject: Re: [PATCH] libibcm: modify API to support multi-threaded event > processing > > >There are compilation errors with this patch when using gcc 4.1.0: > > > Hmmm... I will look into this. I think offsetof is defined in stddef.h, so you must i

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH ] RFC IB/cm do not track remote QPN in timewait state

2006-08-29 Thread Sean Hefty
>Here's an idea: >how about we move the whole timewait thing to low level driver, >starting timer automatically upon QP destroy? I've thought about this too, and I think this may end up making the most sense. How would the driver determine how long the QP should remain in timewait, and how would y

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH] libibsa: userspace SA query and multicast support

2006-08-29 Thread Sean Hefty
>Why SEND ? In general, couldn't it be used like SET/DELETE (in addition >to being used like the GET method variants) ? Also, the SA doesn't use >the SEND method. The latest version of the patch only allows GET or GET_TABLE for PathRecords ServiceRecords, and MCMemberRecords, and GET_MULTI for Mul

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH] libibcm: modify API to support multi-threaded event processing

2006-08-29 Thread Sean Hefty
>There are compilation errors with this patch when using gcc 4.1.0: Hmmm... I will look into this. - Sean ___ openib-general mailing list openib-general@openib.org http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH] osm: OSM fails to bind - TRIVIAL message addition

2006-08-29 Thread Hal Rosenstock
On Sun, 2006-08-27 at 06:16, Yevgeny Kliteynik wrote: > Hi Hal > > This patch just makes the error message more informative for user, > since another instance of running SM is most probably the reason > why osm_opensm_bind failed. > > Yevgeny > > Signed-off-by: Yevgeny Kliteynik <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH] osm: fix memory leak in vendor ibumad

2006-08-29 Thread Hal Rosenstock
Hi Eitan, > Hi Hal > These are two trivial fixes for memory leaks in the > ibumad vendor. > Thanks > Eitan > Signed-off-by: Eitan Zahavi Thanks. Applied (to both trunk and 1.1). -- Hal ___ openib-general mailing list openib-general@openib.org

Re: [openib-general] A critique of RDMA PUT/GET in HPC

2006-08-29 Thread Michael Krause
At 08:56 AM 8/25/2006, Greg Lindahl wrote: On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 10:13:01AM -0500, Tom Tucker wrote: > He does say this, but his analysis does not support this conclusion. His > analysis revolves around MPI send/recv, not the MPI 2.0 get/put > services. Nobody uses MPI put/get anyway, so leavin

[openib-general] [PATCH] libmthca: include stddef.h in mthca.h for SLES10 compilations

2006-08-29 Thread Jack Morgenstein
Fix compilation on SLES10 RC2: mthca.h uses offsetof so it must include stddef.h Signed-off-by: Jack Morgenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: l/src/userspace/libmthca/src/mthca.h ==

[openib-general] [PATCH] osm: TRIVIAL fix in usage message

2006-08-29 Thread Yevgeny Kliteynik
Hi Hal. This patch is just fixing some error in the OSM usage message. Instead of old '-vf' option, there should be '-D'. Thanks. Yevgeny Signed-off-by: Yevgeny Kliteynik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: osm/opensm/main.c === --- osm/o

[openib-general] problems to regiser memory as a reglar user on SLES9 SP3

2006-08-29 Thread Tziporet Koren
Hi All, In testing today we found that on SLES9 SP3 memory locking as a regular user fails. Although I changed /etc/security/limits.conf and added the following two lines: * soft memlock * hard memlock Note that same change does work in SLES10. Another change I tried (that worked in gen1) was

[openib-general] OFED 1.1-rc3 is delayd in 1-2 days

2006-08-29 Thread Tziporet Cohen
Hi All, RC3 will not be available today. There are 2 items that are gating this: 1. SDP last issue with CM resolution 2. ipath patches update So if everything goes well it will be available tomorrow or on Thursday. Tziporet ___ openib-general mailing l

Re: [openib-general] [openfabrics-ewg] drop mthca from svn?

2006-08-29 Thread Tziporet Cohen
James Lentini wrote: If OpenFabrics.org had git repositories, why would we remove the code from the OpenFabrics.org? Matt from Sandia is checking this since I also asked him to provide git repository for OFED release. Tziporet ___ ope

[openib-general] [PATCH DAPLTEST] - compile failure on FC5/X86_64

2006-08-29 Thread Steve Wise
Dunno if this is the correct fix for all platforms/distros, but it worked for me on FC5/X86_64... CLK_TCK wasn't getting defined for this distro... Signed-off-by: Steve Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Index: test/dapltest/mdep/linux/dapl_mdep_user.c

Re: [openib-general] [openfabrics-ewg] drop mthca from svn?

2006-08-29 Thread James Lentini
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Roland Dreier wrote: > Fabian> Mellanox is currently tracking the MTHCA code base for > Fabian> Windows, and moving it out of SVN could make that harder, > Fabian> even impossible if it were to lose the BSD license. > > There's no thought of changing the license

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH ] RFC IB/cm do not track remote QPN in timewait state

2006-08-29 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoting r. Sean Hefty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I believe that this tracking is done, and is reported to the user by the > timewait exit event. QP transitions are the responsibility of the user. > > This is related to a problem that Arlin and I have been discussing. There's > nothing that the CM

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH] libibcm: modify API to support multi-threaded event processing

2006-08-29 Thread Dotan Barak
Sean Hefty wrote: >> Modify the libibcm API to provide better support for multi-threaded >> event processing. CM devices are no longer tied to verb devices >> and hidden from the user. This should allow an application to direct >> events to specific threads for processing. >> >> This patch also rem

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH] libibsa: userspace SA query and multicast support

2006-08-29 Thread Hal Rosenstock
On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 17:26, Sean Hefty wrote: > Roland Dreier wrote: > > What's the plan for how this would be used? We can't let unprivileged > > userspace processes talk to the SA, because they could cause problems > > like deleting someone else's multicast group membership. And I don't > > th

Re: [openib-general] Ib question

2006-08-29 Thread Dotan Barak
resending the response (after a problem in my mail client): > john t wrote: >> >> What is the meaning of above fields or where can I find the >> definition of above fields ? Can I change the value of fields like >> "timeout" or should it be always set to a fixed value. > You can find the descri

Re: [openib-general] libibcm can't open /dev/infiniband/ucm0

2006-08-29 Thread Bub Thomas
Made some progress today: The file OFED-1.0.1/SOURCES/openib-1.0.1/src/userspace/libibcm/README talks about "mknod /dev/infiniband/ucm0 c 231 255" This is not working for me. I'm getting the device /dev/infiniband/ucm0 created but the libibcm still could not open the device Looked into t

Re: [openib-general] why sdp connections cost so much memory

2006-08-29 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
I did - this is the spec bug we are discussing with Sean. Quoting r. zhu shi song <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Subject: Re: why sdp connections cost so much memory > > Have you resolved the problem? > zhu > > --- "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yes, I have reproduced the connect

Re: [openib-general] why sdp connections cost so much memory

2006-08-29 Thread zhu shi song
Have you resolved the problem? zhu --- "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, I have reproduced the connection refusal > problem and I am looking into it. > Thanks! > > MST > > Quoting r. zhu shi song <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Subject: Re: why sdp connections cost so much memory >

[openib-general] [PATCH] libibcm: Need to include stddef.h in cm.c for SLES10 compilations

2006-08-29 Thread Jack Morgenstein
Fix compilation on SLES10: cm.c uses offsetof, so it must include stddef.h Signed-off-by: Jack Morgenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: l/src/userspace/libibcm/src/cm.c === --- l/src/userspace/libibcm/src/cm.c(revision 9128) +++ l/