OFED 1.5.1 rc3 release is available

OFED 1.5.1-rc3 is available

Notes:

The tarball is available on:
http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-1.5.1/OFED-1.5.1-rc3.tgz

To get BUILD_ID run ofed_info

Please report any issues in bugzilla https://bugs.openfabrics.org/ for OFED 1.5.1

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
- 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
- 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 and 2.6.32 *

* Minimal QA for these versions

Main changes from 1.5.1-rc2:
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1. Updated packages:
- ibutils: ibutils-1.5.3
- libnes: libnes-1.0.1
- perftest: perftest-1.2.3-0.10.g90b10d8
- management: taken last release (included in OFED-1.5)
- MPI:
openmpi-1.4.1-2ofed mvapich2-1.4-4.20100302svn3789
2. Bug fixes

commit 8ebd395a39dd946c1e511055cd9559155b72aa19

Author: Yevgeny Petrilin <yevgenyp-VPRAkNaXOzVS1MOuV/[email protected]>
Date:   Thu Mar 4 10:35:48 2010 +0200

mlx4_en: Querying multicast promisc capability

commit 6ec163ac88e42c741dea5c5f84c6c2cc0c84e59f
Merge: d2232d6 dfa995a
Author: Vladimir Sokolovsky <vlad-VPRAkNaXOzVS1MOuV/[email protected]>
Date: Thu Mar 4 10:16:52 2010 +0200

Merge branch 'ofed_kernel_1_5' of ssh://sofa.openfabrics.org/home/ctung/scm/ofed-1.5 into ofed_kernel_1_5

commit dfa995a5246c4a2eeb7cf04bffdb2ee4e8a5ac38

Author: Chien Tung <[email protected]>
Date:   Wed Mar 3 11:01:49 2010 -0600

RDMA/nes: update backports for OFED 1.5.1 rc3

commit 71d5375517945d0d7443eefab4160c3469f3c7a3

Author: Chien Tung <[email protected]>
Date:   Wed Mar 3 10:14:22 2010 -0600

RDMA/nes: clear stall bit befor destroying nic qp

Clear the stall bit to drop any incoming packets while destroying nic qp. This will prevent a chip resource leak.

commit ee8147e700a7ac3c475451e8da0d55cc12ca8387

Author: Chien Tung <[email protected]>
Date:   Wed Mar 3 09:17:03 2010 -0600

RDMA/nes: fix CX4 link detection in back-to-back configuration

commit 1dc9db9f5bed25f0686a8d23644c7e9a34e65391

Author: Faisal Latif <[email protected]>
Date:   Wed Mar 3 09:09:48 2010 -0600

RDMA/nes: enhance ethtool stats
Modified to read hdware registers for rcv/tx errors. Also added pbl resources and removed obsolete counters.

commit 5bae61f79080ee529e6cedc40f3a6924f83c1fc3

Author: Faisal Latif <[email protected]>
Date:   Wed Mar 3 09:07:27 2010 -0600

RDMA/nes: Set assume_alligned_header bit
set assume_alligned_header bit set in qp context as requested by hardware group.

commit d2232d696e228437df456f067fe7b8f4abd5ebe4

Author: Yevgeny Petrilin <yevgenyp-VPRAkNaXOzVS1MOuV/[email protected]>
Date:   Wed Mar 3 14:57:09 2010 +0200

mlx4_en: backports for running QUERY_PORT from workqueue

The bonding driver in those kernels checks the slave state under spinlock which causes "scheduling while atomic" messages when execuring firmware commands.

commit e73e49f26a25303cae5bce5eaf3fe93306575b08

Author: Yevgeny Petrilin <yevgenyp-VPRAkNaXOzVS1MOuV/[email protected]>
Date:   Wed Mar 3 09:59:30 2010 +0200

mlx4_core: Canceled log_num_vlan module parameter

Always set the VLAN table to the max size supported by HW When the table is full, the mlx4_en table reports this with debug message.

commit a6d1ee54bc11e33d64d8e46c6b7c493536134d98
Merge: 9f6cf0f 22f2895
Author: Vladimir Sokolovsky <vlad-VPRAkNaXOzVS1MOuV/[email protected]>
Date: Tue Mar 2 14:18:59 2010 +0200

Merge remote branch 'yevgenyp/ofed_kernel_1_5' into ofed_kernel_1_5

commit 9f6cf0f7276994e4aec4ca0de735460856d814cd

Author: Eli Cohen <eli-VPRAkNaXOzVS1MOuV/[email protected]>
Date:   Tue Mar 2 09:27:31 2010 +0200

mlx4: limit the max mtu for iboe to 2K

commit 04fd9d8711b1f6e4fae4cd0f6533faf3ca115274
Merge: 9ee60aa 17961b3
Author: Vladimir Sokolovsky <vlad-VPRAkNaXOzVS1MOuV/[email protected]>
Date: Mon Mar 1 16:34:55 2010 +0200

Merge remote branch 'amirv/ofed_kernel_1_5' into ofed_kernel_1_5

commit 17961b3a79b02740325a358400eff02314494b00

Author: Amir Vadai <amirv-VPRAkNaXOzVS1MOuV/[email protected]>
Date:   Fri Feb 26 00:50:29 2010 +0200

sdp: Stop SA Cancel timeout when getting SendSM/RdmaRdCompl

commit 204b42b904b403b7b9986b40d244bb8901c5ab3c

Author: Amir Vadai <amirv-VPRAkNaXOzVS1MOuV/[email protected]>
Date:   Thu Feb 25 11:43:03 2010 +0200

sdp: SendSM wasn't sent sometimes after getting SrcAvailCancel

* skb was freed if rx_sa is aborted - preventing SendSM to be sent.
* Didn't update rx_sa->used in case of SrcAvailCancel and therefore not sending RdmaRdCompl.
This also caused the next read to fail because offset wasn't updated

commit d1697433335eb1e7c5256d4e7d94be6beca3d349

Author: Amir Vadai <amirv-VPRAkNaXOzVS1MOuV/[email protected]>
Date:   Wed Feb 24 13:58:35 2010 +0200

sdp: Send SendSM from recvmsg context and not from interrupt

commit 6bbc853c3b7fcc51d978030acc7bf4ba38c9f62e

Author: Amir Vadai <amirv-VPRAkNaXOzVS1MOuV/[email protected]>
Date:   Wed Feb 24 10:59:31 2010 +0200

sdp: Fix bug in crossing SrcAvail

* Handle RdmaRdCompl in interrupt, before splitted to two Q's This way the handling is sequencial, and no race could occure between RdmaRdCompl and SrcAvailCancel
* Fixed an error when checking that RdmaRdCompl is not for old SrcAvail

commit ffea34c3e7cca1f01e6f2c966acfb6c6e59046c4

Author: Amir Vadai <amirv-VPRAkNaXOzVS1MOuV/[email protected]>
Date:   Wed Feb 24 10:39:54 2010 +0200

sdp: Add detailed ZCopy aborted send statistics

commit 9ee60aa56ff3b55e5df3f96cbddf6b2e060f86e0

Author: Tom Tucker <tom-/Yg/[email protected]>
Date:   Wed Feb 24 10:13:41 2010 -0600

nfsrdma: Fix default return code in xs_nospace

The xs_nospace fix I dropped had the wrong default return code.

commit 22f28959bfa9e54f35bb5818bbb17d0a3ea69929

Author: Yevgeny Petrilin <yevgenyp-VPRAkNaXOzVS1MOuV/[email protected]>
Date:   Sun Feb 21 17:54:11 2010 +0200

mlx4_en: updated driver version

commit cabd2b9caf0d51331527277dfc0f41316735e3b7

Author: Yevgeny Petrilin <yevgenyp-VPRAkNaXOzVS1MOuV/[email protected]>
Date:   Sun Feb 21 17:41:51 2010 +0200

RH5.5 backports