OFED 1.5.2 rc6 is available
Hi,
OFED 1.5.2-rc6 is available
Notes:
The tarball is available on:
http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-1.5.2/OFED-1.5.2-rc6.tgz
or
http://69.55.239.13/downloads/OFED/ofed-1.5.2/OFED-1.5.2-rc6.tgz
To get BUILD_ID run ofed_info
Please report any issues in bugzilla https://bugs.openfabrics.org/ (69.55.231.178) for OFED 1.5.2
Schedule:
OFED-1.5.2 GA - September 13.
Vladimir & Tziporet
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Supported Platforms and Operating Systems
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o CPU architectures:
- x86_64
- x86
- ppc64
- ia64
o Linux Operating Systems:
- RedHat EL4 up7 2.6.9-78.ELsmp
- RedHat EL4 up8 2.6.9-89.ELsmp
- RedHat EL5 up3 2.6.18-128.el5
- RedHat EL5 up4 2.6.18-164.el5
- RedHat EL5 up5 2.6.18-194.el5
- RedHat EL6 beta 2.6.32-19.el6.x86_64 *
- SLES10 SP2 2.6.16.60-0.21-smp
- SLES10 SP3 2.6.16.60-0.54-smp
- SLES11 2.6.27.19-5-default
- SLES11 SP1 2.6.32.12-0.7-default *
- OEL 4 up7 2.6.9-78.ELsmp
- OEL 4 up8 2.6.9-89.ELsmp
- CentOS5.3 2.6.18-128.el5
- CentOS5.4 2.6.18-164.el5
- Fedora Core12 2.6.31.5-127.fc12 *
- OpenSuSE 11.2 2.6.31.5-0.1-default *
- kernel.org 2.6.29, 2.6.30,
2.6.31, 2.6.32 and 2.6.33 *
* Minimal QA for these versions
Main changes from 1.5.2-rc5:
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1. Updated packages:
infiniband-diags-1.5.7 libibmad-1.3.6 libibumad-1.3.6 opensm-3.3.7 libibverbs-1.1.4-0.14.gb6c138b libnes-1.1.0 mstflint-1.4-0.4.g1989698 mvapich2-1.5.1-0.1.20100905svn4167
2. Known issues:
mpitests compilation fails over mvapich2
perftest does not support IA64
commit acb980471b90f883eac1a7815a9980e045f47bf7
Author: Ralph Campbell (QLogic) <[email protected]> Date: Fri Sep 3 10:01:09 2010 -0700
IB/qib: initialize new portinfo link_layer field
The RoCE changes added a new field to struct ib_port_attr which was uninitialized. This patch fixes that.
commit 0e1a3cff35baad33763a100f2adfe7121aaaf0f2
Author: Vladimir Sokolovsky <vlad-VPRAkNaXOzVS1MOuV/[email protected]> Date: Thu Sep 2 11:08:36 2010 +0300
truescale.cmds: avoid output of grep errors
commit 7b35671bf9c5d515c45b596e25eb112d36c118d3
Author: Faisal Latif <[email protected]> Date: Wed Sep 1 10:43:18 2010 -0500
RDMA/nes: Modified FIN handling causes hang in A0 cards
The changing state to CLOSING when FIN is received causes A0 cards to hang and the interface will not be active. Now in the FIN handling, a check is made if it is A0 card or not.
commit 84f94bb02415f6d6810c39fd99d8e253c55bf90d
Author: Maciej Sosnowski <[email protected]> Date: Wed Sep 1 08:39:27 2010 -0500
RDMA/nes: turn carrier off on ifdown
This enables bonding driver to detect interface down. This fixes OFED bug 2104.
https://bugs.openfabrics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2104
commit 788dd9a75c9fb9ddd7463ece175f8a3f31d77db1
Author: Eli Cohen <eli-VPRAkNaXOzVS1MOuV/[email protected]> Date: Wed Sep 1 15:34:37 2010 +0300
mlx4: bug fix in counters
Failure to clear the buffer would cause displaying wrong values.
commit da38788240d17b7fff84582c7c2b44ea327e7dcf
Author: Eli Cohen <eli-VPRAkNaXOzVS1MOuV/[email protected]> Date: Tue Aug 31 15:59:15 2010 +0300
Farther optimize ibdev2netdev
commit 56482d884e78fa0c8fbdbb9a3da41dc53ce8630b
Author: Eli Cohen <eli-VPRAkNaXOzVS1MOuV/[email protected]> Date: Tue Aug 31 11:33:04 2010 +0300
IPoIB: show dev_id for kernels < 2.6.20
commit dbc19b8b0756aec4dc0b9b02118237d80e6bf6e0
Author: Eli Cohen <eli-VPRAkNaXOzVS1MOuV/[email protected]> Date: Tue Aug 31 11:12:20 2010 +0300
Fix bug in mlx4_en_0050_missing_devid_sysfs-2.6.20.patch
It showed the value of the port instead of dev_id
commit 1dcb317380d041bfed9376b9190920358998dedf
Author: Eli Cohen <eli-VPRAkNaXOzVS1MOuV/[email protected]> Date: Mon Aug 30 18:21:03 2010 +0300
ibdev2netdev: Include old implementation
For systems where the net device does not expose dev_id, use old implementation. Better this than nothing at all.
commit be21f3ad418749b818227f525c4ee5344cb3a4c6
Author: Eli Cohen <eli-VPRAkNaXOzVS1MOuV/[email protected]> Date: Mon Aug 30 16:06:04 2010 +0300
IB utils: fix ibdev2netdev to work with zero based port numbering
commit f7aa8ad1995d3dd28bab19afde348c40f28954fd
Author: Eli Cohen <eli-VPRAkNaXOzVS1MOuV/[email protected]> Date: Mon Aug 30 14:56:47 2010 +0300
IPoIB: encode port zero based as in mlx4_en
port 1 ==> dev_id 0
port 2 ==> dev_id 1 etc.
commit f236dd43603a3c697af649d7bc625ba3a4abb970
Author: Eli Cohen <eli-VPRAkNaXOzVS1MOuV/[email protected]> Date: Mon Aug 30 12:23:37 2010 +0300
ib utils: update ibdev2netev
Change the sctript to take abvantage of the fact the we have the port number written in the dev_id filed on the net device. The script now runs much faster.
commit c82b7210fdb39c77d752942fde33a29fa641cf83
Author: Eli Cohen <eli-VPRAkNaXOzVS1MOuV/[email protected]> Date: Mon Aug 30 12:19:42 2010 +0300
mlx4: use gid change event
Use this event to update IB core patches.
commit a674923c541c3d5a022c2285f10f03b6a55cc1e5
Author: Eli Cohen <eli-VPRAkNaXOzVS1MOuV/[email protected]> Date: Mon Aug 30 12:17:41 2010 +0300
ib_core: Add GID change event
This is needed for IBoE when the HW driver updates the GID table and the change should be updated in IB core caches.
commit b33c9bda24f974d093e05e7a5934d8e976adb6a1
Author: Eli Cohen <eli-VPRAkNaXOzVS1MOuV/[email protected]> Date: Mon Aug 30 10:46:46 2010 +0300
IPoIB: set dev_id field of IPoIB net_device
Use this in order to be able to associate a device's port to the net device that uses it.
commit f2fc415c99f687c54f68d0870dcc60bf4687cc65
Author: Eli Cohen <eli-VPRAkNaXOzVS1MOuV/[email protected]> Date: Mon Aug 30 08:42:41 2010 +0300
mlx4: Add a new vendor ID method to mlx4
Make method with attribute ID 0xff70 be proccessed by FW.
bug_id,"bug_severity","priority","op_sys","assigned_to","bug_status","resolution","short_short_desc" 767,"major","P3","Other","[email protected]","RESOLVED","FIXED","Non backport Kernels that don't build in genalloc cause compile errors for cxgb3" 2026,"major","P2","SLES 10","[email protected]","CLOSED","FIXED","What's the current target release date for OFED 1.5.2 ?" 2035,"normal","P3","CentOS 5","[email protected]","RESOLVED","FIXED","Intermittent fabric errors triggers bugs in SDP w/zero-copy enabled" 2052,"normal","P3","Other","[email protected]","VERIFIED","FIXED","Very high latency with netperf SDP with msg size 65k" 2070,"critical","P3","SLES 11","[email protected]","VERIFIED","FIXED","Failed to compile OFED1.5.2-RC2 on sles11 sp1 - open-iscsi failed" 2095,"normal","P3","All","[email protected]","RESOLVED","FIXED","Error message when restarting the stack - OFED 1.5.2 RC3" 2104,"major","P3","SLES 11","[email protected]","VERIFIED","FIXED","bonding doesn't detect port failure with NetEffect" 2105,"major","P3","RHEL 5","[email protected]","RESOLVED","FIXED","OFED-1.5.2-20100823-0600 fails to install under RedHat5.4x86"