OFED-3.5-rc2 is available
Hi,
OFED 3.5-rc2 is available.
The tarball is available on:
http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-3.5/OFED-3.5-rc2.tgz
To get BUILD_ID run ofed_info
Please report any issues in bugzilla https://bugs.openfabrics.org/ for OFED 3.5
Regards,
Vladimir
OFED-3.5-rc2 Main Changes from OFED 3.5-rc1
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
compat-rdma: Add SRP backport
compat-rdma: /etc/init.d/openibd: Fix LSB header
compat-rdma: IB/qib: linux-3.6 patches backported
compat-rdma: iw_cxgb4: Fix bug 2369 in OFED bugzilla
compat-rdma: IB/qib: fix compliance regression in 3.5
compat-rdma: RDMA/nes: Added linux-next-pending patches
compat-rdma: RDMA/nes: Updated backports
compat-rdma: NFSRDMA RHEL6.3 backport
compat-rdma: NFSRDMA SLES11SP2 backport
compat-rdma: linux-next-cherry-picks: RDMA/ucma.c: Different fix for ucma context uid=0, causing iWarp RDMA applications to fail in connection establishment
Updated packages:
infinipath-psm-3.0.1-115.1015_open
perftest-1.4.0-0.80.gd1763bd
qperf-0.4.7-0.2.gf3f7001Supported Platforms and Operating Systems
---------------------------------------------
o CPU architectures:
- x86_64
- x86
- ppc64
- ia64
o Linux Operating Systems:
- RedHat EL6.2 2.6.32-220.el6
- RedHat EL6.3 2.6.32-279.el6
- SLES11 SP2 3.0.13-0.27-default
- kernel.org 3.5 ** Minimal QA for these versions.
OFED_release_notes.txt
Note: See the release notes of each component for additional issues.
Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) Version 3.5-rc2 Release Notes October 2012
===============================================================================
Table of Contents
===============================================================================
1. Overview, which includes:
- OFED Distribution Rev 3.5 Contents
- Supported Platforms and Operating Systems
- Supported HCA and RNIC Adapter Cards and Firmware Versions
- Tested Switch Platforms
- Third party Test Packages
- OFED sources
2. Change log
3. Known Issues
===============================================================================
1. Overview
===============================================================================
These are the release notes of OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) release 3.5. The OFED software package is composed of several software modules, and is intended for use on a computer cluster constructed as an InfiniBand subnet or iWARP network.
Note: If you plan to upgrade the OFED package on your cluster, please upgrade all of its nodes to this new version.
1.1 OFED 3.5 Contents
-----------------------
The OFED package contains the following components:
- OpenFabrics core and ULPs:
- IB HCA drivers (mthca, mlx4, qib, ehca)
- iWARP RNIC driver (cxgb3, cxgb4, nes)
- core
- Upper Layer Protocols: IPoIB, SRP Initiator and target, iSER Initiator and target, RDS, uDAPL, qlgc_vnic and NFS-RDMA*.
- OpenFabrics utilities:
- OpenSM (OSM): InfiniBand Subnet Manager
- Diagnostic tools
- Performance tests
- Extra packages:
- infinipath-psm: Performance-Scaled Messaging API, an accelerated interface to QLogic HCAs
- Sources of all software modules (under conditions mentioned in the modules' LICENSE files)
- Documentation
1.2 Supported Platforms and Operating Systems
---------------------------------------------
o CPU architectures:
- x86_64
- x86
- ppc64
- ia64
o Linux Operating Systems:
- RedHat EL6.2 2.6.32-220.el6
- RedHat EL6.3 2.6.32-279.el6
- SLES11 SP2 3.0.13-0.27-default
- kernel.org 3.5 *
* Minimal QA for these versions.
1.3 HCAs and RNICs Supported
----------------------------
This release supports IB HCAs by Mellanox Technologies, Qlogic and IBM as well as iWARP RNICs by Chelsio Communications and Intel.
o Mellanox Technologies HCAs (SDR, DDR and QDR Modes are Supported):
- ConnectX(R) and ConnectX EN (fw-25408 Rev 2.9.1000)
- ConnectX-2 (fw-ConnectX2 Rev 2.9.1000)
- ConnectX-2 EN (fw-ConnectX2 Rev 2.9.1200)
- ConnectX-3 (fw-ConnectX3 Rev 2.10.0700) (FDR and FDR10 Modes are Supported)
- ConnectX-3 EN (fw-ConnectX3 Rev 2.10.0800)
For official firmware versions please see:
http://www.mellanox.com/content/pages.php?pg=firmware_download
o Qlogic HCAs:
- QLogic TrueScale DDR PCIe x8 and x16 HCAs
- QLogic TrueScale QDR PCIe x8 Gen2 HCAs
o IBM HCAs:
- GX Dual-port SDR 4x IB HCA
- GX Dual-port SDR 12x IB HCA
- GX Dual-port DDR 4x IB HCA
- GX Dual-port DDR 12x IB HCA
o Chelsio RNICs:
- S310/S320 10GbE Storage Accelerators
- R310/R320 10GbE iWARP Adapters
o Intel RNICs:
- NE020 10Gb iWARP Adapter
1.4 Switches Supported
----------------------
This release was tested with switches and gateways provided by the following companies:
- Qlogic
- Flextronics
- Oracle (Sun)
- Mellanox
1.5 Third Party Packages
------------------------
The following third party packages have been tested with OFED 3.2:
- MVAPICH2 - 1.8
- Intel MPI - 4.0.3
- Open MPI - 1.6/1.6.1
1.6 OFED Sources
----------------
All sources are located under git://git.openfabrics.org/
Linux:
------
URL: git://git.openfabrics.org/compat-rdma/linux-3.5.git
Branch: for-ofed-3.5
- Linux kernel subtree that includes files relevant for the OFED project only. Based on v3.5. Used to shorten git clone time.
Note: the regular Linux git tree can be used as well.
compat:
-------
URL: git://git.openfabrics.org/compat-rdma/compat.git
Branch: ofed
- Based on compat project (https://github.com/mcgrof/compat). The compat module provides functionality introduced in newer kernels to older kernels through a set of header files and exported symbols.
See https://github.com/mcgrof/compat/wiki for details.
- Used to replace kernel_addons in the previous OFED kernel tree.
compat-rdma:
------------
URL: git://git.openfabrics.org/compat-rdma/compat-rdma.git
Branch: master
User level Sources are downloaded from http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/
as written in the BUILD_ID
The kernel sources are based on Linux 3.5 mainline kernel. Its patches are included in the OFED sources directory.
For details see HOWTO.build_ofed.
The list of maintainers is available under:
http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/MAINTAINERS
===============================================================================
2. Change log
===============================================================================
OFED-3.5-rc2 Main Changes from OFED 3.5-rc1
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
compat-rdma: Add SRP backport
compat-rdma: /etc/init.d/openibd: Fix LSB header
compat-rdma: IB/qib: linux-3.6 patches backported
compat-rdma: iw_cxgb4: Fix bug 2369 in OFED bugzilla
compat-rdma: IB/qib: fix compliance regression in 3.5
compat-rdma: RDMA/nes: Add linux-next-pending patches
compat-rdma: RDMA/nes: Updated backports
compat-rdma: NFSRDMA RHEL6.3 backport
compat-rdma: NFSRDMA SLES11SP2 backport
compat-rdma: linux-next-cherry-picks: RDMA/ucma.c: Different fix for ucma context uid=0, causing iWarp RDMA applications to fail in connection establishment
Updated packages:
infinipath-psm-3.0.1-115.1015_open
perftest-1.4.0-0.80.gd1763bd
qperf-0.4.7-0.2.gf3f7001OFED-3.5-rc1 Main Changes from OFED 3.2-rc1
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Based on linux-3.5 kernel
2. Updated packages:
ibacm-1.0.7
librdmacm-1.0.16
dapl-2.0.36
Management:
libibumad-1.3.8
infiniband-diags-1.6.1
opensm-3.3.15
3. Removed libsdp, sdpnetstat
OFED-3.5-rc1 Main Changes from OFED 1.5.4.1
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Based on linux-3.2 kernel
2. kernel-ib RPM renamed to compat-rdma
3. Removed MPI packages
4. Updated packages:
libibverbs-1.1.6
libmlx4-1.0.4
dapl-2.0.35
ibacm-1.0.6
perftest-1.4.0-0.66.g9074687
Management:
libibmad-1.3.9
opensm-3.3.14
infiniband-diags-1.6.0
OFED-1.5.4 Main Changes from OFED 1.5.3.2
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Add kernel 3.0 support
2. Add RHEL6.2 support
3. Add NFSRDMA to the list of packages to be installed by default on supported platforms
4. Add new InfiniBand link speeds: EDR/FDR/FDR10
5. OFA Kernel: See ofa_kernel.changelog.txt
6. Updated packages:
libibverbs-1.1.4-1.24.gb89d4d7
libmlx4-1.0.1-1.20.g6771d22
libnes-1.1.3
libcxgb3-1.3.1
libcxgb4-1.2.0
dapl-2.0.34
ibacm-1.0.5
librdmacm-1.0.15
infinipath-psm-2.9-926.1005_open
ibutils-1.5.7-0.1.g05a9d1a
perftest-1.3.0-0.56.gd6f6093
mstflint-1.4-1.18.g1adcfbf
Management:
libibmad-1.3.8
infiniband-diags-1.5.12
opensm-3.3.12
MPI:
mvapich2-1.7-5.2011svn5031
OFED-1.5.3.2 Main Changes from OFED 1.5.3.1
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Add RHEL5.7 support
2. Add RHEL6.1 support
3. Add kernel.org 2.6.37 - 2.6.39 support
4. ib-bonding-0.9.0-43 (SLES10 SP4 support)
OFED-1.5.3.1 Main Changes from OFED 1.5.3
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Fix QIB support on SLES10 SP3
OFED-1.5.3 Main Changes from OFED 1.5.2
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Updated packages:
dapl-2.0.32
librdmacm-1.0.14.1
ibacm-1.0.4
libibmad-1.3.7
libibumad-1.3.7
infiniband-diags-1.5.8
opensm-3.3.9
ibutils-1.5.7
libibverbs-1.1.4-1.22.g7257cd3.tar.gz
libmlx4-1.0.1-1.18.gb810a27.tar.gz
libnes-1.1.1
infinipath-psm-1.14
libsdp-1.1.108-0.15.gd7fdb72
mstflint-1.4-0.9.gc683022
sdpnetstat-1.60-0.3.gb6e7425
perftest-1.3.0-0.42.gf350d3d
- MPI
openmpi-1.4.3-1
mvapich2-1.6-22. Added RHEL6 support
3. Added RHEL5.6 support
4. Improved RAW Ethernet QP support (requires ConnectX/ConnectX2 FW >= 2.8.0600)
5. NFSoRDMA was removed from the list of packages in the install script to prevent its installation by default.
To force NFSoRDMA installation, add the following lines to the ofed.conf:
nfsrdma=y
rnfs-utils=y
To get ofed.conf, run
# ./install.pl -p
After adding the lines above to ofed.conf, to install OFED run
# ./install.pl -c ofed.conf
OFED-1.5.2 Main Changes from OFED 1.5.1
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Added RHEL5.5, SLES11 SP1 and kernel 2.6.33 support
2. /etc/modprobe.conf deprecated
ib_ipoib use /etc/modprobe.d/ib_ipoib.conf ib_sdp use /etc/modprobe.d/ib_sdp.conf mlx4_en use /etc/modprobe.d/mlx4_en.conf
3. Added RAW Ethernet QP support in libibverbs
4. Added multicast support in perftest
5. Added new package: ibacm. See ibacm_release_notes.txt
6. Added new package infinipath-psm.
7. Updated packages:
libibverbs to rev 1.1.4-0.14.gb6c138b
libehca to rev 1.2.2-0.1.g69e1a88
libmlx4 to rev 1.0-0.13.g4e5c43f
libnes to rev 1.1.0
librdmacm to rev 1.0.13
dapl to rev 2.0.30
compat-depl to rev 1.2.19
libsdp to rev 1.1.103
mstflint to rev 1.4-0.6.g63179f4
perftest to rev 1.3.0-0.27
rds-tools to rev 2.0.4
Management:
opensm to rev 3.3.7
libibmad to rev 1.3.6
libibumad to rev 1.3.6
infiniband-diags to rev 1.5.7
MPI:
openmpi to rev 1.4.2-1
mvapich2 to rev 1.5.1-2.p1
mpitests to rev 3.2-923OFED-1.5.1 Main Changes from OFED 1.5
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Added RoCEE support - see RoCEE_README.txt
2. Added enhanced atomic operations to ConnectX (kernel only). See mlx4_release_notes.txt.
3. Updated Open MPI to rev 1.4.1-2ofed
4. Updated MVAPICH2 to rev 1.4.1
5. Updated DAPL to rev 2.0.27
6. Updated libnes to rev 1.0.1
7. Updated librdmacm to rev 1.0.11
8. Removed tvflash RPM
9. NFS-RDMA is not supported on SLES10 SP3
10. Fixed IPv6 support and IPv4 routing corner cases for RDMA CM
11. Bug fixes
OFED-1.5 Main Changes from OFED 1.4.2
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Note: For details regarding the various changes, please see the release notes for each package in the docs directory.
2.1 General changes
o Kernel code based on 2.6.30
o libraries location - all userspace libraries can be downloaded from
http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/
See BUILD_ID for exact locations
o Qlogic moved the low level driver from ipath to qib.
2.2 SDP
o Performance improvements
o Zero copy in beta level
2.3 uDAPL
o New UCM provider (ofa-v2-mlx4_0-1u) with IB UD-based CM per process. It is more scalable than rdma_cm (cma) or socket cm (scm).
o Common code base with WinOF 2.1
o Bug fixes
2.4 perftest
o Renamed tests:
ib_rdma_bw -> rdma_bw
ib_rdma_lat -> rdma_lat
2.5 Management
o OpenSM
- Support for Mesh Analysis for LASH routing algorithm
- Reloadable OpenSM configuration (preliminary implementation)
- Routing paths sorted balancing (for UpDown and MinHops)
- Weighted LID matrices calculation (for UpDown, MinHop and DOR)
- I/O nodes connectivity (for FatTree)
2.6 MPI:
a. OSU MVAPICH 1.2.0
b. Open MPI 1.4
c. OSU MVAPICH2 1.4
d. MPI tests 3.2
2.7 iSER:
o Available on:
- kernel.org: 2.6.30 and higher
- RHEL5.4
2.8 NFS-RDMA
o Added support for RHEL5.4, SLES10 SP3, kernel.org 2.6.25 and 2.6.30. Kernels 2.6.26 and 2.6.27 are not supported
o NFS-RDMA is in Beta level
===============================================================================
3. Known Issues
===============================================================================
The following is a list of general limitations and known issues of the various components of the OFED 3.5-rc2 release.
1. When upgrading from an earlier OFED version, the installation script does not stop the earlier OFED version prior to uninstalling it.
Workaround: Stop the old OFED stack (/etc/init.d/openibd stop) before upgrading to OFED 3.5 or reboot the server after OFED installation.
2. Memory registration by the user is limited according to administrator setting. See "Pinning (Locking) User Memory Pages" in OFED_tips.txt for system configuration.
3. Fork support from kernel 2.6.12 and above is available provided that applications do not use threads. fork() is supported as long as the parent process does not run before the child exits or calls exec(). The former can be achieved by calling wait(childpid), and the latter can be achieved by application specific means. The Posix system() call is supported.
4. The qib driver is supported only on 64-bit platforms.
5. IPoIB: brctl utilities do not work on IPoIB interfaces. The reason for that is that these utilities support devices of type Ethernet only.
6. In case uninstall is failing, check the error log and remove the remaining RPMs manually using 'rpm -e <rpms list>'.
7. On SLES11.x, set allow_unsupported_modules parameter to 1 in file:
/etc/modprobe.d/unsupported-modules. Without this the modules will not load.
Note: See the release notes of each component for additional issues.
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Hi Vlad. Happy New Year (belated) ! One additional note below...
Quoted 14 lines · Vladimir Sokolovsky
Hi,
OFED 3.5-rc2 is available.The tarball is available on:
http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-3.5/OFED-3.5-rc2.tgzTo get
BUILD_IDrunofed_infoPlease report any issues in bugzilla https://bugs.openfabrics.org/ for OFED 3.5
Regards,
Vladimir
Quoted 12 lines
OFED-3.5-rc2 Main Changes from OFED 3.5-rc1
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
compat-rdma: Add SRP backport
compat-rdma:/etc/init.d/openibd: Fix LSB header
compat-rdma: IB/qib: linux-3.6 patches backported
compat-rdma:iw_cxgb4: Fix bug 2369 in OFED bugzilla
compat-rdma: IB/qib: fix compliance regression in 3.5
compat-rdma: RDMA/nes: Added linux-next-pending patches
compat-rdma: RDMA/nes: Updated backports
compat-rdma: NFSRDMA RHEL6.3 backport
compat-rdma: NFSRDMA SLES11SP2 backport
compat-rdma: linux-next-cherry-picks:RDMA/ucma.c: Different fix for ucma context uid=0, causing iWarp RDMA applications to fail in connection establishment
Although it didn't require additional patches, I have verified that NFSRDMA is also supported on RHEL6.2. Thanks.
-jeff
Quoted 27 lines
Updated packages:
infinipath-psm-3.0.1-115.1015_open perftest-1.4.0-0.80.gd1763bd qperf-0.4.7-0.2.gf3f7001Supported Platforms and Operating Systems
---------------------------------------------
o CPU architectures:
-x86_64
- x86
- ppc64
- ia64o Linux Operating Systems:
- RedHat EL6.2 2.6.32-220.el6
- RedHat EL6.3 2.6.32-279.el6
- SLES11 SP2 3.0.13-0.27-default
- kernel.org 3.5 ** Minimal QA for these versions.
OFED_release_notes.txt
Note: See the release notes of each component for additional issues.
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/linux-3.0.13-0.27/include/linux/kernel.h:20,
from /usr/src/linux-3.0.13-0.27/include/linux/skbuff.h:17,
from /usr/src/linux-3.0.13-0.27/include/linux/if_ether.h:127,
from /usr/src/linux-3.0.13-0.27/include/linux/netdevice.h:29,
from /var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/compat-rdma-3.5/include/linux/compat-2.6.29.h:5,
from /var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/compat-rdma-3.5/include/linux/compat-2.6.h:48,
from <command-line>:0:/usr/src/linux-3.0.13-0.27/include/linux/printk.h:152:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition /var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/compat-rdma-3.5/drivers/infiniband/ulp/srp/ib_srp.c:70:2: warning: "RHEL_MAJOR" is not defined /var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/compat-rdma-3.5/drivers/infiniband/ulp/srp/ib_srp.c:71: error: redefinition of ?struct srp_cred_req? /var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/compat-rdma-3.5/drivers/infiniband/ulp/srp/ib_srp.c:79: error: redefinition of ?struct srp_cred_rsp? /var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/compat-rdma-3.5/drivers/infiniband/ulp/srp/ib_srp.c:90: error: redefinition of ?struct srp_aer_req? /var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/compat-rdma-3.5/drivers/infiniband/ulp/srp/ib_srp.c:103: error: redefinition of ?struct srp_aer_rsp? make[6]: *** [/var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/compat-rdma-3.5/drivers/infiniband/ulp/srp/ib_srp.o] Error 1 make[5]: *** [/var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/compat-rdma-3.5/drivers/infiniband/ulp/srp] Error 2
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Vladimir Sokolovsky
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2012 8:55 AM
To: OpenFabrics EWG
Cc: linux-rdma
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] OFED-3.5-rc2 is available
Hi,
OFED 3.5-rc2 is available.
The tarball is available on:
http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-3.5/OFED-3.5-rc2.tgz
To get BUILD_ID run ofed_info
Please report any issues in bugzilla https://bugs.openfabrics.org/ for OFED 3.5
Regards,
Vladimir
OFED-3.5-rc2 Main Changes from OFED 3.5-rc1
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
compat-rdma: Add SRP backport
compat-rdma: /etc/init.d/openibd: Fix LSB header
compat-rdma: IB/qib: linux-3.6 patches backported
compat-rdma: iw_cxgb4: Fix bug 2369 in OFED bugzilla
compat-rdma: IB/qib: fix compliance regression in 3.5
compat-rdma: RDMA/nes: Added linux-next-pending patches
compat-rdma: RDMA/nes: Updated backports
compat-rdma: NFSRDMA RHEL6.3 backport
compat-rdma: NFSRDMA SLES11SP2 backport
compat-rdma: linux-next-cherry-picks: RDMA/ucma.c: Different fix for ucma context uid=0, causing iWarp RDMA applications to fail in connection establishment
Updated packages:
infinipath-psm-3.0.1-115.1015_open
perftest-1.4.0-0.80.gd1763bd
qperf-0.4.7-0.2.gf3f7001Supported Platforms and Operating Systems
---------------------------------------------
o CPU architectures:
- x86_64
- x86
- ppc64
- ia64
o Linux Operating Systems:
- RedHat EL6.2 2.6.32-220.el6
- RedHat EL6.3 2.6.32-279.el6
- SLES11 SP2 3.0.13-0.27-default
- kernel.org 3.5 ** Minimal QA for these versions.
OFED_release_notes.txt
Note: See the release notes of each component for additional issues.
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Hi Vladimir,
why do you put OFED together for a kernel nobody uses? Perhaps SLES and Red Hat do it like this but nobody else.
Have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel - 3.0, 3.2 and 3.4 are the long-term stable releases.
This approach is worse than the approach before IMHO. Since 1.5.4.1 there is no real stable release. No wonder that everyone puts his own OFED together.
I'm so glad that we don't need too much OFED user space and we just use the IB stuff from the mainline kernel. We need to surf close to mainline kernel development anyway.
The only thing that we would need is a list which packet with which version matches our mainline kernel. Updating it from Git directly from a tag or branch with no external patches or SRPM/tar.gz stuff would make it much easier - also for other distributions. Things are getting better for us with the switch-over to Gentoo. There, we can leave out the packages that we don't actually need.
Cheers,
Sebastian
Quoted 50 lines · Vladimir Sokolovsky
Hi,
OFED 3.5-rc2 is available.The tarball is available on:
http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-3.5/OFED-3.5-rc2.tgzTo get
BUILD_IDrunofed_infoPlease report any issues in bugzilla https://bugs.openfabrics.org/ for OFED 3.5
Regards,
VladimirOFED-3.5-rc2 Main Changes from OFED 3.5-rc1
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------compat-rdma: Add SRP backport
compat-rdma:/etc/init.d/openibd: Fix LSB header
compat-rdma: IB/qib: linux-3.6 patches backported
compat-rdma:iw_cxgb4: Fix bug 2369 in OFED bugzilla
compat-rdma: IB/qib: fix compliance regression in 3.5
compat-rdma: RDMA/nes: Added linux-next-pending patches
compat-rdma: RDMA/nes: Updated backports
compat-rdma: NFSRDMA RHEL6.3 backport
compat-rdma: NFSRDMA SLES11SP2 backport
compat-rdma: linux-next-cherry-picks:RDMA/ucma.c: Different fix for ucma context uid=0, causing iWarp RDMA applications to fail in connection establishmentUpdated packages:
infinipath-psm-3.0.1-115.1015_open perftest-1.4.0-0.80.gd1763bd qperf-0.4.7-0.2.gf3f7001Supported Platforms and Operating Systems
---------------------------------------------
o CPU architectures:
-x86_64
- x86
- ppc64
- ia64o Linux Operating Systems:
- RedHat EL6.2 2.6.32-220.el6 - RedHat EL6.3 2.6.32-279.el6 - SLES11 SP2 3.0.13-0.27-default - kernel.org 3.5 *
Quoted 7 lines
* Minimal QA for these versions.
OFED_release_notes.txt
Note: See the release notes of each component for additional issues.
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Quoted 5 lines · Sebastian Riemer
Hi Vladimir,
why do you put OFED together for a kernel nobody uses? Perhaps SLES and Red Hat do it like this but nobody else.
Hi Sebastian,
The point of OFED-3.5 was to provide an infrastructure to make the latest
upstream RDMA features be available and tested on Distros.
By the time the work started the latest upstream kernel version
was 3.5-rc3 and, therefore, we started with this kernel.
The plan is to create such OFED for every kernel version, or, maybe skip odd versions as you suggest.
Due to limited resources we did not start to work on 3.6 yet, but once OFED-3.5 will have stable infrastructure it will be easier to build OFED-3.6...
Quoted 6 lines
Have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel - 3.0, 3.2 and 3.4 are the long-term stable releases.
This approach is worse than the approach before IMHO. Since 1.5.4.1 there is no real stable release. No wonder that everyone puts his own OFED together.
This approach should increase motivation to push new features/fixes upstream which will lead to more stable drivers in all Distros (in-box).
Quoted 11 lines
I'm so glad that we don't need too much OFED user space and we just use the IB stuff from the mainline kernel. We need to surf close to mainline kernel development anyway.
The only thing that we would need is a list which packet with which version matches our mainline kernel. Updating it from Git directly from a tag or branch with no external patches or SRPM/tar.gz stuff would make it much easier - also for other distributions. Things are getting better for us with the switch-over to Gentoo. There, we can leave out the packages that we don't actually need.
For the list of packages and maintainers please refer to http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/MAINTAINERS
Regards,
Vladimir
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[ANNOUNCE] OFED-3.5-rc3 is available
In reply to a message not in the archiveHi,
OFED 3.5-rc3 is available.
The tarball is available on:
http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-3.5/OFED-3.5-rc3.tgz
To get BUILD_ID run ofed_info
Please report any issues in bugzilla https://bugs.openfabrics.org/ for OFED 3.5
OFED-3.5-rc3 Main Changes from OFED 3.5-rc2
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
RDMA/nes: Fix for terminate timer crash
RDMA/nes: Fix for crash when adding timer and timer is pending
RDMA/nes: Fix for incorrect multicast address
RDMA/nes: Fix for crash when adding timer
RDMA/nes: Locking fix to prevent race conditions
RDMA/nes: Changing nes driver version
RDMA/nes: Fixes for PAU handling
cxgb4: Initialize data structures before using.
cxgb4: Fix initialization of SGE_CONTROL register
cxgb4: Add embedded firmware and its configuration file support cxgb4/iw_cxgb4: Add LE hash collision bug fix for active and passive offloaded connections
cxgb4: Fix unable to get UP event from the LLD
cxgb4: Remove unnecessary #ifdef condition
cxgb4: Fix build warnings introduced after T4 configuration file support
cxgb4: Add support for T4 configuration fileiw_cxgb4: only log rx_data warnings if cpl status is non zero.
RDMA/cxgb4: fix mpa version mismatch
RDMA/cxgb4: abort connections that receive unexpected streaming mode data RDMA/cxgb4: Insert hwtid in pass_accept_req instead in pass_establish RDMA/cxgb4: Remove the limitation on maximum number of STAGs
linux-next-cherry-picks: Fix build failure for kernel < 3.2
IB/qib: remove EBUSY patchib_srp: Avoid that module removal can trigger a deadlockib_srp: Unbreak build on SLES 11 SP2ib_srp: Add post-3.5 upstream patchesib_srp: Avoid use-after-free during module unload on pre-2.6.36 kernels
Updated packages:
mstflint-1.4-1.23.g5c2032a
perftest-2.0-0.8.gaeb562e
qperf-0.4.9Regards,
Vladimir
Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) Version 3.5-rc3 Release Notes December 2012
===============================================================================
Table of Contents
===============================================================================
1. Overview, which includes:
- OFED Distribution Rev 3.5 Contents
- Supported Platforms and Operating Systems
- Supported HCA and RNIC Adapter Cards and Firmware Versions
- Tested Switch Platforms
- Third party Test Packages
- OFED sources
2. Change log
3. Known Issues
===============================================================================
1. Overview
===============================================================================
These are the release notes of OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) release 3.5. The OFED software package is composed of several software modules, and is intended for use on a computer cluster constructed as an InfiniBand subnet or iWARP network.
Note: If you plan to upgrade the OFED package on your cluster, please upgrade all of its nodes to this new version.
1.1 OFED 3.5 Contents
-----------------------
The OFED package contains the following components:
- OpenFabrics core and ULPs:
- IB HCA drivers (mthca, mlx4, qib, ehca)
- iWARP RNIC driver (cxgb3, cxgb4, nes)
- core
- Upper Layer Protocols: IPoIB, SRP Initiator and target, iSER Initiator and target, RDS, uDAPL, qlgc_vnic and NFS-RDMA*.
- OpenFabrics utilities:
- OpenSM (OSM): InfiniBand Subnet Manager
- Diagnostic tools
- Performance tests
- Extra packages:
- infinipath-psm: Performance-Scaled Messaging API, an accelerated interface to QLogic HCAs
- Sources of all software modules (under conditions mentioned in the modules' LICENSE files)
- Documentation
1.2 Supported Platforms and Operating Systems
---------------------------------------------
o CPU architectures:
- x86_64
- x86
- ppc64
- ia64
o Linux Operating Systems:
- RedHat EL6.2 2.6.32-220.el6
- RedHat EL6.3 2.6.32-279.el6
- SLES11 SP2 3.0.13-0.27-default
- kernel.org 3.5 *
* Minimal QA for these versions.
1.3 HCAs and RNICs Supported
----------------------------
This release supports IB HCAs by Mellanox Technologies, Qlogic and IBM as well as iWARP RNICs by Chelsio Communications and Intel.
o Mellanox Technologies HCAs (SDR, DDR and QDR Modes are Supported):
- ConnectX(R) and ConnectX EN (fw-25408 Rev 2.9.1000)
- ConnectX-2 (fw-ConnectX2 Rev 2.9.1000)
- ConnectX-2 EN (fw-ConnectX2 Rev 2.9.1200)
- ConnectX-3 (fw-ConnectX3 Rev 2.10.0700) (FDR and FDR10 Modes are Supported)
- ConnectX-3 EN (fw-ConnectX3 Rev 2.10.0800)
For official firmware versions please see:
http://www.mellanox.com/content/pages.php?pg=firmware_download
o Qlogic HCAs:
- QLogic TrueScale DDR PCIe x8 and x16 HCAs
- QLogic TrueScale QDR PCIe x8 Gen2 HCAs
o IBM HCAs:
- GX Dual-port SDR 4x IB HCA
- GX Dual-port SDR 12x IB HCA
- GX Dual-port DDR 4x IB HCA
- GX Dual-port DDR 12x IB HCA
o Chelsio RNICs:
- S310/S320 10GbE Storage Accelerators
- R310/R320 10GbE iWARP Adapters
o Intel RNICs:
- NE020 10Gb iWARP Adapter
1.4 Switches Supported
----------------------
This release was tested with switches and gateways provided by the following companies:
- Qlogic
- Flextronics
- Oracle (Sun)
- Mellanox
1.5 Third Party Packages
------------------------
The following third party packages have been tested with OFED 3.2:
- MVAPICH2 - 1.8
- Intel MPI - 4.0.3
- Open MPI - 1.6/1.6.1
1.6 OFED Sources
----------------
All sources are located under git://git.openfabrics.org/
Linux:
------
URL: git://git.openfabrics.org/compat-rdma/linux-3.5.git
Branch: for-ofed-3.5
- Linux kernel subtree that includes files relevant for the OFED project only. Based on v3.5. Used to shorten git clone time.
Note: the regular Linux git tree can be used as well.
compat:
-------
URL: git://git.openfabrics.org/compat-rdma/compat.git
Branch: ofed
- Based on compat project (https://github.com/mcgrof/compat). The compat module provides functionality introduced in newer kernels to older kernels through a set of header files and exported symbols.
See https://github.com/mcgrof/compat/wiki for details.
- Used to replace kernel_addons in the previous OFED kernel tree.
compat-rdma:
------------
URL: git://git.openfabrics.org/compat-rdma/compat-rdma.git
Branch: master
User level Sources are downloaded from http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/
as written in the BUILD_ID
The kernel sources are based on Linux 3.5 mainline kernel. Its patches are included in the OFED sources directory.
For details see HOWTO.build_ofed.
The list of maintainers is available under:
http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/MAINTAINERS
===============================================================================
2. Change log
===============================================================================
OFED-3.5-rc3 Main Changes from OFED 3.5-rc2
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
RDMA/nes: Fix for terminate timer crash
RDMA/nes: Fix for crash when adding timer and timer is pending
RDMA/nes: Fix for incorrect multicast address
RDMA/nes: Fix for crash when adding timer
RDMA/nes: Locking fix to prevent race conditions
RDMA/nes: Changing nes driver version
RDMA/nes: Fixes for PAU handling
cxgb4: Initialize data structures before using.
cxgb4: Fix initialization of SGE_CONTROL register
cxgb4: Add embedded firmware and its configuration file support cxgb4/iw_cxgb4: Add LE hash collision bug fix for active and passive offloaded connections
cxgb4: Fix unable to get UP event from the LLD
cxgb4: Remove unnecessary #ifdef condition
cxgb4: Fix build warnings introduced after T4 configuration file support
cxgb4: Add support for T4 configuration fileiw_cxgb4: only log rx_data warnings if cpl status is non zero.
RDMA/cxgb4: fix mpa version mismatch
RDMA/cxgb4: abort connections that receive unexpected streaming mode data RDMA/cxgb4: Insert hwtid in pass_accept_req instead in pass_establish RDMA/cxgb4: Remove the limitation on maximum number of STAGs
linux-next-cherry-picks: Fix build failure for kernel < 3.2
IB/qib: remove EBUSY patchib_srp: Avoid that module removal can trigger a deadlockib_srp: Unbreak build on SLES 11 SP2ib_srp: Add post-3.5 upstream patchesib_srp: Avoid use-after-free during module unload on pre-2.6.36 kernels
Updated packages:
mstflint-1.4-1.23.g5c2032a
perftest-2.0-0.8.gaeb562e
qperf-0.4.9OFED-3.5-rc2 Main Changes from OFED 3.5-rc1
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
compat-rdma: Add SRP backport
compat-rdma: /etc/init.d/openibd: Fix LSB header
compat-rdma: IB/qib: linux-3.6 patches backported
compat-rdma: iw_cxgb4: Fix bug 2369 in OFED bugzilla
compat-rdma: IB/qib: fix compliance regression in 3.5
compat-rdma: RDMA/nes: Add linux-next-pending patches
compat-rdma: RDMA/nes: Updated backports
compat-rdma: NFSRDMA RHEL6.3 backport
compat-rdma: NFSRDMA SLES11SP2 backport
compat-rdma: linux-next-cherry-picks: RDMA/ucma.c: Different fix for ucma context uid=0, causing iWarp RDMA applications to fail in connection establishment
Updated packages:
infinipath-psm-3.0.1-115.1015_open
perftest-1.4.0-0.80.gd1763bd
qperf-0.4.7-0.2.gf3f7001OFED-3.5-rc1 Main Changes from OFED 3.2-rc1
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Based on linux-3.5 kernel
2. Updated packages:
ibacm-1.0.7
librdmacm-1.0.16
dapl-2.0.36
Management:
libibumad-1.3.8
infiniband-diags-1.6.1
opensm-3.3.15
3. Removed libsdp, sdpnetstat
OFED-3.5-rc1 Main Changes from OFED 1.5.4.1
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Based on linux-3.2 kernel
2. kernel-ib RPM renamed to compat-rdma
3. Removed MPI packages
4. Updated packages:
libibverbs-1.1.6
libmlx4-1.0.4
dapl-2.0.35
ibacm-1.0.6
perftest-1.4.0-0.66.g9074687
Management:
libibmad-1.3.9
opensm-3.3.14
infiniband-diags-1.6.0
OFED-1.5.4 Main Changes from OFED 1.5.3.2
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Add kernel 3.0 support
2. Add RHEL6.2 support
3. Add NFSRDMA to the list of packages to be installed by default on supported platforms
4. Add new InfiniBand link speeds: EDR/FDR/FDR10
5. OFA Kernel: See ofa_kernel.changelog.txt
6. Updated packages:
libibverbs-1.1.4-1.24.gb89d4d7
libmlx4-1.0.1-1.20.g6771d22
libnes-1.1.3
libcxgb3-1.3.1
libcxgb4-1.2.0
dapl-2.0.34
ibacm-1.0.5
librdmacm-1.0.15
infinipath-psm-2.9-926.1005_open
ibutils-1.5.7-0.1.g05a9d1a
perftest-1.3.0-0.56.gd6f6093
mstflint-1.4-1.18.g1adcfbf
Management:
libibmad-1.3.8
infiniband-diags-1.5.12
opensm-3.3.12
MPI:
mvapich2-1.7-5.2011svn5031
OFED-1.5.3.2 Main Changes from OFED 1.5.3.1
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Add RHEL5.7 support
2. Add RHEL6.1 support
3. Add kernel.org 2.6.37 - 2.6.39 support
4. ib-bonding-0.9.0-43 (SLES10 SP4 support)
OFED-1.5.3.1 Main Changes from OFED 1.5.3
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Fix QIB support on SLES10 SP3
OFED-1.5.3 Main Changes from OFED 1.5.2
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Updated packages:
dapl-2.0.32
librdmacm-1.0.14.1
ibacm-1.0.4
libibmad-1.3.7
libibumad-1.3.7
infiniband-diags-1.5.8
opensm-3.3.9
ibutils-1.5.7
libibverbs-1.1.4-1.22.g7257cd3.tar.gz
libmlx4-1.0.1-1.18.gb810a27.tar.gz
libnes-1.1.1
infinipath-psm-1.14
libsdp-1.1.108-0.15.gd7fdb72
mstflint-1.4-0.9.gc683022
sdpnetstat-1.60-0.3.gb6e7425
perftest-1.3.0-0.42.gf350d3d
- MPI
openmpi-1.4.3-1
mvapich2-1.6-22. Added RHEL6 support
3. Added RHEL5.6 support
4. Improved RAW Ethernet QP support (requires ConnectX/ConnectX2 FW >= 2.8.0600)
5. NFSoRDMA was removed from the list of packages in the install script to prevent its installation by default.
To force NFSoRDMA installation, add the following lines to the ofed.conf:
nfsrdma=y
rnfs-utils=y
To get ofed.conf, run
# ./install.pl -p
After adding the lines above to ofed.conf, to install OFED run
# ./install.pl -c ofed.conf
OFED-1.5.2 Main Changes from OFED 1.5.1
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Added RHEL5.5, SLES11 SP1 and kernel 2.6.33 support
2. /etc/modprobe.conf deprecated
ib_ipoib use /etc/modprobe.d/ib_ipoib.conf ib_sdp use /etc/modprobe.d/ib_sdp.conf mlx4_en use /etc/modprobe.d/mlx4_en.conf
3. Added RAW Ethernet QP support in libibverbs
4. Added multicast support in perftest
5. Added new package: ibacm. See ibacm_release_notes.txt
6. Added new package infinipath-psm.
7. Updated packages:
libibverbs to rev 1.1.4-0.14.gb6c138b
libehca to rev 1.2.2-0.1.g69e1a88
libmlx4 to rev 1.0-0.13.g4e5c43f
libnes to rev 1.1.0
librdmacm to rev 1.0.13
dapl to rev 2.0.30
compat-depl to rev 1.2.19
libsdp to rev 1.1.103
mstflint to rev 1.4-0.6.g63179f4
perftest to rev 1.3.0-0.27
rds-tools to rev 2.0.4
Management:
opensm to rev 3.3.7
libibmad to rev 1.3.6
libibumad to rev 1.3.6
infiniband-diags to rev 1.5.7
MPI:
openmpi to rev 1.4.2-1
mvapich2 to rev 1.5.1-2.p1
mpitests to rev 3.2-923OFED-1.5.1 Main Changes from OFED 1.5
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Added RoCEE support - see RoCEE_README.txt
2. Added enhanced atomic operations to ConnectX (kernel only). See mlx4_release_notes.txt.
3. Updated Open MPI to rev 1.4.1-2ofed
4. Updated MVAPICH2 to rev 1.4.1
5. Updated DAPL to rev 2.0.27
6. Updated libnes to rev 1.0.1
7. Updated librdmacm to rev 1.0.11
8. Removed tvflash RPM
9. NFS-RDMA is not supported on SLES10 SP3
10. Fixed IPv6 support and IPv4 routing corner cases for RDMA CM
11. Bug fixes
OFED-1.5 Main Changes from OFED 1.4.2
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Note: For details regarding the various changes, please see the release notes for each package in the docs directory.
2.1 General changes
o Kernel code based on 2.6.30
o libraries location - all userspace libraries can be downloaded from
http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/
See BUILD_ID for exact locations
o Qlogic moved the low level driver from ipath to qib.
2.2 SDP
o Performance improvements
o Zero copy in beta level
2.3 uDAPL
o New UCM provider (ofa-v2-mlx4_0-1u) with IB UD-based CM per process. It is more scalable than rdma_cm (cma) or socket cm (scm).
o Common code base with WinOF 2.1
o Bug fixes
2.4 perftest
o Renamed tests:
ib_rdma_bw -> rdma_bw
ib_rdma_lat -> rdma_lat
2.5 Management
o OpenSM
- Support for Mesh Analysis for LASH routing algorithm
- Reloadable OpenSM configuration (preliminary implementation)
- Routing paths sorted balancing (for UpDown and MinHops)
- Weighted LID matrices calculation (for UpDown, MinHop and DOR)
- I/O nodes connectivity (for FatTree)
2.6 MPI:
a. OSU MVAPICH 1.2.0
b. Open MPI 1.4
c. OSU MVAPICH2 1.4
d. MPI tests 3.2
2.7 iSER:
o Available on:
- kernel.org: 2.6.30 and higher
- RHEL5.4
2.8 NFS-RDMA
o Added support for RHEL5.4, SLES10 SP3, kernel.org 2.6.25 and 2.6.30. Kernels 2.6.26 and 2.6.27 are not supported
o NFS-RDMA is in Beta level
===============================================================================
3. Known Issues
===============================================================================
The following is a list of general limitations and known issues of the various components of the OFED 3.5-rc2 release.
1. When upgrading from an earlier OFED version, the installation script does not stop the earlier OFED version prior to uninstalling it.
Workaround: Stop the old OFED stack (/etc/init.d/openibd stop) before upgrading to OFED 3.5 or reboot the server after OFED installation.
2. Memory registration by the user is limited according to administrator setting. See "Pinning (Locking) User Memory Pages" in OFED_tips.txt for system configuration.
3. Fork support from kernel 2.6.12 and above is available provided that applications do not use threads. fork() is supported as long as the parent process does not run before the child exits or calls exec(). The former can be achieved by calling wait(childpid), and the latter can be achieved by application specific means. The Posix system() call is supported.
4. The qib driver is supported only on 64-bit platforms.
5. IPoIB: brctl utilities do not work on IPoIB interfaces. The reason for that is that these utilities support devices of type Ethernet only.
6. In case uninstall is failing, check the error log and remove the remaining RPMs manually using 'rpm -e <rpms list>'.
7. On SLES11.x, set allow_unsupported_modules parameter to 1 in file:
/etc/modprobe.d/unsupported-modules. Without this the modules will not load.
Note: See the release notes of each component for additional issues.
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[ANNOUNCE] OFED-3.5-rc4 is available
Hi,
OFED 3.5-rc4 is available.
The tarball is available on:
http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-3.5/OFED-3.5-rc4.tgz
To get BUILD_ID run ofed_info
Please report any issues in bugzilla https://bugs.openfabrics.org/ for OFED 3.5
OFED-3.5-rc4 Main Changes from OFED 3.5-rc3
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
RDMA/nes: Fixes for OFED-3.5 RC3
RDMA/cxgb4: Keep the maximum number of stag limited to T4_MAX_NUM_STAG Updated packages:
infinipath-psm-3.1-364.1140_open
Regards,
Vladimir
Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) Version 3.5-rc4 Release Notes January 2013
===============================================================================
Table of Contents
===============================================================================
1. Overview, which includes:
- OFED Distribution Rev 3.5 Contents
- Supported Platforms and Operating Systems
- Supported HCA and RNIC Adapter Cards and Firmware Versions
- Tested Switch Platforms
- Third party Test Packages
- OFED sources
2. Change log
3. Known Issues
===============================================================================
1. Overview
===============================================================================
These are the release notes of OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) release 3.5. The OFED software package is composed of several software modules, and is intended for use on a computer cluster constructed as an InfiniBand subnet or iWARP network.
Note: If you plan to upgrade the OFED package on your cluster, please upgrade all of its nodes to this new version.
1.1 OFED 3.5 Contents
-----------------------
The OFED package contains the following components:
- OpenFabrics core and ULPs:
- IB HCA drivers (mthca, mlx4, qib, ehca)
- iWARP RNIC driver (cxgb3, cxgb4, nes)
- core
- Upper Layer Protocols: IPoIB, SRP Initiator and target, iSER Initiator and target, RDS, uDAPL, qlgc_vnic and NFS-RDMA*.
- OpenFabrics utilities:
- OpenSM (OSM): InfiniBand Subnet Manager
- Diagnostic tools
- Performance tests
- Extra packages:
- infinipath-psm: Performance-Scaled Messaging API, an accelerated interface to Intel(R) HCAs
- Sources of all software modules (under conditions mentioned in the modules' LICENSE files)
- Documentation
1.2 Supported Platforms and Operating Systems
---------------------------------------------
o CPU architectures:
- x86_64
- x86
- ppc64
- ia64
o Linux Operating Systems:
- RedHat EL6.2 2.6.32-220.el6
- RedHat EL6.3 2.6.32-279.el6
- SLES11 SP2 3.0.13-0.27-default
- kernel.org 3.5 *
* Minimal QA for these versions.
1.3 HCAs and RNICs Supported
----------------------------
This release supports IB HCAs by Mellanox Technologies, Qlogic and IBM as well as iWARP RNICs by Chelsio Communications and Intel.
o Mellanox Technologies HCAs (SDR, DDR and QDR Modes are Supported):
- ConnectX(R) and ConnectX EN (fw-25408 Rev 2.9.1000)
- ConnectX-2 (fw-ConnectX2 Rev 2.9.1000)
- ConnectX-2 EN (fw-ConnectX2 Rev 2.9.1200)
- ConnectX-3 (fw-ConnectX3 Rev 2.10.0700) (FDR and FDR10 Modes are Supported)
- ConnectX-3 EN (fw-ConnectX3 Rev 2.10.0800)
For official firmware versions please see:
http://www.mellanox.com/content/pages.php?pg=firmware_download
o Qlogic HCAs:
- Intel(R) True Scale DDR PCIe x8 and x16 HCAs
- Intel(R) True Scale QDR PCIe x8 Gen2 HCAs
o IBM HCAs:
- GX Dual-port SDR 4x IB HCA
- GX Dual-port SDR 12x IB HCA
- GX Dual-port DDR 4x IB HCA
- GX Dual-port DDR 12x IB HCA
o Chelsio RNICs:
- S310/S320 10GbE Storage Accelerators
- R310/R320 10GbE iWARP Adapters
o Intel RNICs:
- NE020 10Gb iWARP Adapter
1.4 Switches Supported
----------------------
This release was tested with switches and gateways provided by the following companies:
- Qlogic
- Flextronics
- Oracle (Sun)
- Mellanox
1.5 Third Party Packages
------------------------
The following third party packages have been tested with OFED 3.2:
- MVAPICH2 - 1.8
- Intel MPI - 4.0.3
- Open MPI - 1.6/1.6.1
1.6 OFED Sources
----------------
All sources are located under git://git.openfabrics.org/
Linux:
------
URL: git://git.openfabrics.org/compat-rdma/linux-3.5.git
Branch: for-ofed-3.5
- Linux kernel subtree that includes files relevant for the OFED project only. Based on v3.5. Used to shorten git clone time.
Note: the regular Linux git tree can be used as well.
compat:
-------
URL: git://git.openfabrics.org/compat-rdma/compat.git
Branch: ofed
- Based on compat project (https://github.com/mcgrof/compat). The compat module provides functionality introduced in newer kernels to older kernels through a set of header files and exported symbols.
See https://github.com/mcgrof/compat/wiki for details.
- Used to replace kernel_addons in the previous OFED kernel tree.
compat-rdma:
------------
URL: git://git.openfabrics.org/compat-rdma/compat-rdma.git
Branch: master
User level Sources are downloaded from http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/
as written in the BUILD_ID
The kernel sources are based on Linux 3.5 mainline kernel. Its patches are included in the OFED sources directory.
For details see HOWTO.build_ofed.
The list of maintainers is available under:
http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/MAINTAINERS
===============================================================================
2. Change log
===============================================================================
OFED-3.5-rc4 Main Changes from OFED 3.5-rc3
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
RDMA/nes: Fixes for OFED-3.5 RC3
RDMA/cxgb4: Keep the maximum number of stag limited to T4_MAX_NUM_STAG Updated packages:
infinipath-psm-3.1-364.1140_open
OFED-3.5-rc3 Main Changes from OFED 3.5-rc2
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
RDMA/nes: Fix for terminate timer crash
RDMA/nes: Fix for crash when adding timer and timer is pending
RDMA/nes: Fix for incorrect multicast address
RDMA/nes: Fix for crash when adding timer
RDMA/nes: Locking fix to prevent race conditions
RDMA/nes: Changing nes driver version
RDMA/nes: Fixes for PAU handling
cxgb4: Initialize data structures before using.
cxgb4: Fix initialization of SGE_CONTROL register
cxgb4: Add embedded firmware and its configuration file support cxgb4/iw_cxgb4: Add LE hash collision bug fix for active and passive offloaded connections
cxgb4: Fix unable to get UP event from the LLD
cxgb4: Remove unnecessary #ifdef condition
cxgb4: Fix build warnings introduced after T4 configuration file support
cxgb4: Add support for T4 configuration fileiw_cxgb4: only log rx_data warnings if cpl status is non zero.
RDMA/cxgb4: fix mpa version mismatch
RDMA/cxgb4: abort connections that receive unexpected streaming mode data RDMA/cxgb4: Insert hwtid in pass_accept_req instead in pass_establish RDMA/cxgb4: Remove the limitation on maximum number of STAGs
linux-next-cherry-picks: Fix build failure for kernel < 3.2
IB/qib: remove EBUSY patchib_srp: Avoid that module removal can trigger a deadlockib_srp: Unbreak build on SLES 11 SP2ib_srp: Add post-3.5 upstream patchesib_srp: Avoid use-after-free during module unload on pre-2.6.36 kernels
Updated packages:
mstflint-1.4-1.23.g5c2032a
perftest-2.0-0.8.gaeb562e
qperf-0.4.9OFED-3.5-rc2 Main Changes from OFED 3.5-rc1
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
compat-rdma: Add SRP backport
compat-rdma: /etc/init.d/openibd: Fix LSB header
compat-rdma: IB/qib: linux-3.6 patches backported
compat-rdma: iw_cxgb4: Fix bug 2369 in OFED bugzilla
compat-rdma: IB/qib: fix compliance regression in 3.5
compat-rdma: RDMA/nes: Add linux-next-pending patches
compat-rdma: RDMA/nes: Updated backports
compat-rdma: NFSRDMA RHEL6.3 backport
compat-rdma: NFSRDMA SLES11SP2 backport
compat-rdma: linux-next-cherry-picks: RDMA/ucma.c: Different fix for ucma context uid=0, causing iWarp RDMA applications to fail in connection establishment
Updated packages:
infinipath-psm-3.0.1-115.1015_open
perftest-1.4.0-0.80.gd1763bd
qperf-0.4.7-0.2.gf3f7001OFED-3.5-rc1 Main Changes from OFED 3.2-rc1
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Based on linux-3.5 kernel
2. Updated packages:
ibacm-1.0.7
librdmacm-1.0.16
dapl-2.0.36
Management:
libibumad-1.3.8
infiniband-diags-1.6.1
opensm-3.3.15
3. Removed libsdp, sdpnetstat
OFED-3.5-rc1 Main Changes from OFED 1.5.4.1
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Based on linux-3.5 kernel
2. kernel-ib RPM renamed to compat-rdma
3. Removed MPI packages
4. Updated packages:
libibverbs-1.1.6
libmlx4-1.0.4
dapl-2.0.35
ibacm-1.0.6
perftest-1.4.0-0.66.g9074687
Management:
libibmad-1.3.9
opensm-3.3.14
infiniband-diags-1.6.0
OFED-1.5.4 Main Changes from OFED 1.5.3.2
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Add kernel 3.0 support
2. Add RHEL6.2 support
3. Add NFSRDMA to the list of packages to be installed by default on supported platforms
4. Add new InfiniBand link speeds: EDR/FDR/FDR10
5. OFA Kernel: See ofa_kernel.changelog.txt
6. Updated packages:
libibverbs-1.1.4-1.24.gb89d4d7
libmlx4-1.0.1-1.20.g6771d22
libnes-1.1.3
libcxgb3-1.3.1
libcxgb4-1.2.0
dapl-2.0.34
ibacm-1.0.5
librdmacm-1.0.15
infinipath-psm-2.9-926.1005_open
ibutils-1.5.7-0.1.g05a9d1a
perftest-1.3.0-0.56.gd6f6093
mstflint-1.4-1.18.g1adcfbf
Management:
libibmad-1.3.8
infiniband-diags-1.5.12
opensm-3.3.12
MPI:
mvapich2-1.7-5.2011svn5031
OFED-1.5.3.2 Main Changes from OFED 1.5.3.1
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Add RHEL5.7 support
2. Add RHEL6.1 support
3. Add kernel.org 2.6.37 - 2.6.39 support
4. ib-bonding-0.9.0-43 (SLES10 SP4 support)
OFED-1.5.3.1 Main Changes from OFED 1.5.3
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Fix QIB support on SLES10 SP3
OFED-1.5.3 Main Changes from OFED 1.5.2
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Updated packages:
dapl-2.0.32
librdmacm-1.0.14.1
ibacm-1.0.4
libibmad-1.3.7
libibumad-1.3.7
infiniband-diags-1.5.8
opensm-3.3.9
ibutils-1.5.7
libibverbs-1.1.4-1.22.g7257cd3.tar.gz
libmlx4-1.0.1-1.18.gb810a27.tar.gz
libnes-1.1.1
infinipath-psm-1.14
libsdp-1.1.108-0.15.gd7fdb72
mstflint-1.4-0.9.gc683022
sdpnetstat-1.60-0.3.gb6e7425
perftest-1.3.0-0.42.gf350d3d
- MPI
openmpi-1.4.3-1
mvapich2-1.6-22. Added RHEL6 support
3. Added RHEL5.6 support
4. Improved RAW Ethernet QP support (requires ConnectX/ConnectX2 FW >= 2.8.0600)
5. NFSoRDMA was removed from the list of packages in the install script to prevent its installation by default.
To force NFSoRDMA installation, add the following lines to the ofed.conf:
nfsrdma=y
rnfs-utils=y
To get ofed.conf, run
# ./install.pl -p
After adding the lines above to ofed.conf, to install OFED run
# ./install.pl -c ofed.conf
OFED-1.5.2 Main Changes from OFED 1.5.1
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Added RHEL5.5, SLES11 SP1 and kernel 2.6.33 support
2. /etc/modprobe.conf deprecated
ib_ipoib use /etc/modprobe.d/ib_ipoib.conf ib_sdp use /etc/modprobe.d/ib_sdp.conf mlx4_en use /etc/modprobe.d/mlx4_en.conf
3. Added RAW Ethernet QP support in libibverbs
4. Added multicast support in perftest
5. Added new package: ibacm. See ibacm_release_notes.txt
6. Added new package infinipath-psm.
7. Updated packages:
libibverbs to rev 1.1.4-0.14.gb6c138b
libehca to rev 1.2.2-0.1.g69e1a88
libmlx4 to rev 1.0-0.13.g4e5c43f
libnes to rev 1.1.0
librdmacm to rev 1.0.13
dapl to rev 2.0.30
compat-depl to rev 1.2.19
libsdp to rev 1.1.103
mstflint to rev 1.4-0.6.g63179f4
perftest to rev 1.3.0-0.27
rds-tools to rev 2.0.4
Management:
opensm to rev 3.3.7
libibmad to rev 1.3.6
libibumad to rev 1.3.6
infiniband-diags to rev 1.5.7
MPI:
openmpi to rev 1.4.2-1
mvapich2 to rev 1.5.1-2.p1
mpitests to rev 3.2-923OFED-1.5.1 Main Changes from OFED 1.5
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Added RoCEE support - see RoCEE_README.txt
2. Added enhanced atomic operations to ConnectX (kernel only). See mlx4_release_notes.txt.
3. Updated Open MPI to rev 1.4.1-2ofed
4. Updated MVAPICH2 to rev 1.4.1
5. Updated DAPL to rev 2.0.27
6. Updated libnes to rev 1.0.1
7. Updated librdmacm to rev 1.0.11
8. Removed tvflash RPM
9. NFS-RDMA is not supported on SLES10 SP3
10. Fixed IPv6 support and IPv4 routing corner cases for RDMA CM
11. Bug fixes
OFED-1.5 Main Changes from OFED 1.4.2
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Note: For details regarding the various changes, please see the release notes for each package in the docs directory.
2.1 General changes
o Kernel code based on 2.6.30
o libraries location - all userspace libraries can be downloaded from
http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/
See BUILD_ID for exact locations
o Qlogic moved the low level driver from ipath to qib.
2.2 SDP
o Performance improvements
o Zero copy in beta level
2.3 uDAPL
o New UCM provider (ofa-v2-mlx4_0-1u) with IB UD-based CM per process. It is more scalable than rdma_cm (cma) or socket cm (scm).
o Common code base with WinOF 2.1
o Bug fixes
2.4 perftest
o Renamed tests:
ib_rdma_bw -> rdma_bw
ib_rdma_lat -> rdma_lat
2.5 Management
o OpenSM
- Support for Mesh Analysis for LASH routing algorithm
- Reloadable OpenSM configuration (preliminary implementation)
- Routing paths sorted balancing (for UpDown and MinHops)
- Weighted LID matrices calculation (for UpDown, MinHop and DOR)
- I/O nodes connectivity (for FatTree)
2.6 MPI:
a. OSU MVAPICH 1.2.0
b. Open MPI 1.4
c. OSU MVAPICH2 1.4
d. MPI tests 3.2
2.7 iSER:
o Available on:
- kernel.org: 2.6.30 and higher
- RHEL5.4
2.8 NFS-RDMA
o Added support for RHEL5.4, SLES10 SP3, kernel.org 2.6.25 and 2.6.30. Kernels 2.6.26 and 2.6.27 are not supported
o NFS-RDMA is in Beta level
===============================================================================
3. Known Issues
===============================================================================
The following is a list of general limitations and known issues of the various components of the OFED 3.5-rc2 release.
1. When upgrading from an earlier OFED version, the installation script does not stop the earlier OFED version prior to uninstalling it.
Workaround: Stop the old OFED stack (/etc/init.d/openibd stop) before upgrading to OFED 3.5 or reboot the server after OFED installation.
2. Memory registration by the user is limited according to administrator setting. See "Pinning (Locking) User Memory Pages" in OFED_tips.txt for system configuration.
3. Fork support from kernel 2.6.12 and above is available provided that applications do not use threads. fork() is supported as long as the parent process does not run before the child exits or calls exec(). The former can be achieved by calling wait(childpid), and the latter can be achieved by application specific means. The Posix system() call is supported.
4. The qib driver is supported only on 64-bit platforms.
5. IPoIB: brctl utilities do not work on IPoIB interfaces. The reason for that is that these utilities support devices of type Ethernet only.
6. In case uninstall is failing, check the error log and remove the remaining RPMs manually using 'rpm -e <rpms list>'.
7. On SLES11.x, set allow_unsupported_modules parameter to 1 in file:
/etc/modprobe.d/unsupported-modules. Without this the modules will not load.
Note: See the release notes of each component for additional issues.
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Re: [ANNOUNCE] OFED-3.5-rc4 is available
Hello. Does this release production ready for heavy load? Or now best to use ofed 1.5.x?
2013/1/3 Vladimir Sokolovsky <[email protected]>:
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Hi,
OFED 3.5-rc4 is available.The tarball is available on:
http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-3.5/OFED-3.5-rc4.tgzTo get
BUILD_IDrunofed_infoPlease report any issues in bugzilla https://bugs.openfabrics.org/ for OFED 3.5
OFED-3.5-rc4 Main Changes from OFED 3.5-rc3
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
RDMA/nes: Fixes for OFED-3.5 RC3
RDMA/cxgb4: Keep the maximum number of stag limited toT4_MAX_NUM_STAGUpdated packages:infinipath-psm-3.1-364.1140_openRegards,
Vladimir
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[ANNOUNCE] OFED-3.5-rc5 is available
In reply to a message not in the archiveHi,
OFED 3.5-rc5 is available.
The tarball is available on:
http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-3.5/OFED-3.5-rc5.tgz
To get BUILD_ID run ofed_info
Please report any issues in bugzilla https://bugs.openfabrics.org/ for OFED 3.5
OFED-3.5-rc5 Main Changes from OFED 3.5-rc4
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
perftest-2.0-0.25.g971259d
Regards,
Vladimir
Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) Version 3.5-rc5 Release Notes January 2013
===============================================================================
Table of Contents
===============================================================================
1. Overview, which includes:
- OFED Distribution Rev 3.5 Contents
- Supported Platforms and Operating Systems
- Supported HCA and RNIC Adapter Cards and Firmware Versions
- Tested Switch Platforms
- Third party Test Packages
- OFED sources
2. Change log
3. Known Issues
===============================================================================
1. Overview
===============================================================================
These are the release notes of OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) release 3.5. The OFED software package is composed of several software modules, and is intended for use on a computer cluster constructed as an InfiniBand subnet or iWARP network.
Note: If you plan to upgrade the OFED package on your cluster, please upgrade all of its nodes to this new version.
1.1 OFED 3.5 Contents
-----------------------
The OFED package contains the following components:
- OpenFabrics core and ULPs:
- IB HCA drivers (mthca, mlx4, qib, ehca)
- iWARP RNIC driver (cxgb3, cxgb4, nes)
- core
- Upper Layer Protocols: IPoIB, SRP Initiator and target, iSER Initiator and target, RDS, uDAPL, qlgc_vnic and NFS-RDMA*.
- OpenFabrics utilities:
- OpenSM (OSM): InfiniBand Subnet Manager
- Diagnostic tools
- Performance tests
- Extra packages:
- infinipath-psm: Performance-Scaled Messaging API, an accelerated interface to Intel(R) HCAs
- Sources of all software modules (under conditions mentioned in the modules' LICENSE files)
- Documentation
1.2 Supported Platforms and Operating Systems
---------------------------------------------
o CPU architectures:
- x86_64
- x86
- ppc64
- ia64
o Linux Operating Systems:
- RedHat EL6.2 2.6.32-220.el6
- RedHat EL6.3 2.6.32-279.el6
- SLES11 SP2 3.0.13-0.27-default
- kernel.org 3.5 *
* Minimal QA for these versions.
1.3 HCAs and RNICs Supported
----------------------------
This release supports IB HCAs by Mellanox Technologies, Intel and IBM as well as iWARP RNICs by Chelsio Communications and Intel.
o Mellanox Technologies HCAs (SDR, DDR and QDR Modes are Supported):
- ConnectX(R) and ConnectX EN (fw-25408 Rev 2.9.1000)
- ConnectX-2 (fw-ConnectX2 Rev 2.9.1000)
- ConnectX-2 EN (fw-ConnectX2 Rev 2.9.1200)
- ConnectX-3 (fw-ConnectX3 Rev 2.10.0700) (FDR and FDR10 Modes are Supported)
- ConnectX-3 EN (fw-ConnectX3 Rev 2.10.0800)
For official firmware versions please see:
http://www.mellanox.com/content/pages.php?pg=firmware_download
o Intel (formerly QLogic) HCAs:
- Intel(R) True Scale DDR PCIe x8 and x16 HCAs
- Intel(R) True Scale QDR PCIe x8 Gen2 HCAs
o IBM HCAs:
- GX Dual-port SDR 4x IB HCA
- GX Dual-port SDR 12x IB HCA
- GX Dual-port DDR 4x IB HCA
- GX Dual-port DDR 12x IB HCA
o Chelsio RNICs:
- S310/S320 10GbE Storage Accelerators
- R310/R320 10GbE iWARP Adapters
o Intel RNICs:
- NE020 10Gb iWARP Adapter
1.4 Switches Supported
----------------------
This release was tested with switches and gateways provided by the following companies:
- Intel (formerly QLogic)
- Flextronics
- Oracle (Sun)
- Mellanox
1.5 Third Party Packages
------------------------
The following third party packages have been tested with OFED 3.2:
- MVAPICH2 - 1.8
- Intel MPI - 4.0.3
- Open MPI - 1.6/1.6.1
1.6 OFED Sources
----------------
All sources are located under git://git.openfabrics.org/
Linux:
------
URL: git://git.openfabrics.org/compat-rdma/linux-3.5.git
Branch: for-ofed-3.5
- Linux kernel subtree that includes files relevant for the OFED project only. Based on v3.5. Used to shorten git clone time.
Note: the regular Linux git tree can be used as well.
compat:
-------
URL: git://git.openfabrics.org/compat-rdma/compat.git
Branch: ofed
- Based on compat project (https://github.com/mcgrof/compat). The compat module provides functionality introduced in newer kernels to older kernels through a set of header files and exported symbols.
See https://github.com/mcgrof/compat/wiki for details.
- Used to replace kernel_addons in the previous OFED kernel tree.
compat-rdma:
------------
URL: git://git.openfabrics.org/compat-rdma/compat-rdma.git
Branch: master
User level Sources are downloaded from http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/
as written in the BUILD_ID
The kernel sources are based on Linux 3.5 mainline kernel. Its patches are included in the OFED sources directory.
For details see HOWTO.build_ofed.
The list of maintainers is available under:
http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/MAINTAINERS
===============================================================================
2. Change log
===============================================================================
OFED-3.5-rc5 Main Changes from OFED 3.5-rc4
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
perftest-2.0-0.25.g971259d
OFED-3.5-rc4 Main Changes from OFED 3.5-rc3
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
RDMA/nes: Fixes for OFED-3.5 RC3
RDMA/cxgb4: Keep the maximum number of stag limited to T4_MAX_NUM_STAG Updated packages:
infinipath-psm-3.1-364.1140_open
OFED-3.5-rc3 Main Changes from OFED 3.5-rc2
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
RDMA/nes: Fix for terminate timer crash
RDMA/nes: Fix for crash when adding timer and timer is pending
RDMA/nes: Fix for incorrect multicast address
RDMA/nes: Fix for crash when adding timer
RDMA/nes: Locking fix to prevent race conditions
RDMA/nes: Changing nes driver version
RDMA/nes: Fixes for PAU handling
cxgb4: Initialize data structures before using.
cxgb4: Fix initialization of SGE_CONTROL register
cxgb4: Add embedded firmware and its configuration file support cxgb4/iw_cxgb4: Add LE hash collision bug fix for active and passive offloaded connections
cxgb4: Fix unable to get UP event from the LLD
cxgb4: Remove unnecessary #ifdef condition
cxgb4: Fix build warnings introduced after T4 configuration file support
cxgb4: Add support for T4 configuration fileiw_cxgb4: only log rx_data warnings if cpl status is non zero.
RDMA/cxgb4: fix mpa version mismatch
RDMA/cxgb4: abort connections that receive unexpected streaming mode data RDMA/cxgb4: Insert hwtid in pass_accept_req instead in pass_establish RDMA/cxgb4: Remove the limitation on maximum number of STAGs
linux-next-cherry-picks: Fix build failure for kernel < 3.2
IB/qib: remove EBUSY patchib_srp: Avoid that module removal can trigger a deadlockib_srp: Unbreak build on SLES 11 SP2ib_srp: Add post-3.5 upstream patchesib_srp: Avoid use-after-free during module unload on pre-2.6.36 kernels
Updated packages:
mstflint-1.4-1.23.g5c2032a
perftest-2.0-0.8.gaeb562e
qperf-0.4.9OFED-3.5-rc2 Main Changes from OFED 3.5-rc1
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
compat-rdma: Add SRP backport
compat-rdma: /etc/init.d/openibd: Fix LSB header
compat-rdma: IB/qib: linux-3.6 patches backported
compat-rdma: iw_cxgb4: Fix bug 2369 in OFED bugzilla
compat-rdma: IB/qib: fix compliance regression in 3.5
compat-rdma: RDMA/nes: Add linux-next-pending patches
compat-rdma: RDMA/nes: Updated backports
compat-rdma: NFSRDMA RHEL6.3 backport
compat-rdma: NFSRDMA SLES11SP2 backport
compat-rdma: linux-next-cherry-picks: RDMA/ucma.c: Different fix for ucma context uid=0, causing iWarp RDMA applications to fail in connection establishment
Updated packages:
infinipath-psm-3.0.1-115.1015_open
perftest-1.4.0-0.80.gd1763bd
qperf-0.4.7-0.2.gf3f7001OFED-3.5-rc1 Main Changes from OFED 3.2-rc1
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Based on linux-3.5 kernel
2. Updated packages:
ibacm-1.0.7
librdmacm-1.0.16
dapl-2.0.36
Management:
libibumad-1.3.8
infiniband-diags-1.6.1
opensm-3.3.15
3. Removed libsdp, sdpnetstat
OFED-3.5-rc1 Main Changes from OFED 1.5.4.1
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Based on linux-3.5 kernel
2. kernel-ib RPM renamed to compat-rdma
3. Removed MPI packages
4. Updated packages:
libibverbs-1.1.6
libmlx4-1.0.4
dapl-2.0.35
ibacm-1.0.6
perftest-1.4.0-0.66.g9074687
Management:
libibmad-1.3.9
opensm-3.3.14
infiniband-diags-1.6.0
OFED-1.5.4 Main Changes from OFED 1.5.3.2
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Add kernel 3.0 support
2. Add RHEL6.2 support
3. Add NFSRDMA to the list of packages to be installed by default on supported platforms
4. Add new InfiniBand link speeds: EDR/FDR/FDR10
5. OFA Kernel: See ofa_kernel.changelog.txt
6. Updated packages:
libibverbs-1.1.4-1.24.gb89d4d7
libmlx4-1.0.1-1.20.g6771d22
libnes-1.1.3
libcxgb3-1.3.1
libcxgb4-1.2.0
dapl-2.0.34
ibacm-1.0.5
librdmacm-1.0.15
infinipath-psm-2.9-926.1005_open
ibutils-1.5.7-0.1.g05a9d1a
perftest-1.3.0-0.56.gd6f6093
mstflint-1.4-1.18.g1adcfbf
Management:
libibmad-1.3.8
infiniband-diags-1.5.12
opensm-3.3.12
MPI:
mvapich2-1.7-5.2011svn5031
OFED-1.5.3.2 Main Changes from OFED 1.5.3.1
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Add RHEL5.7 support
2. Add RHEL6.1 support
3. Add kernel.org 2.6.37 - 2.6.39 support
4. ib-bonding-0.9.0-43 (SLES10 SP4 support)
OFED-1.5.3.1 Main Changes from OFED 1.5.3
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Fix QIB support on SLES10 SP3
OFED-1.5.3 Main Changes from OFED 1.5.2
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Updated packages:
dapl-2.0.32
librdmacm-1.0.14.1
ibacm-1.0.4
libibmad-1.3.7
libibumad-1.3.7
infiniband-diags-1.5.8
opensm-3.3.9
ibutils-1.5.7
libibverbs-1.1.4-1.22.g7257cd3.tar.gz
libmlx4-1.0.1-1.18.gb810a27.tar.gz
libnes-1.1.1
infinipath-psm-1.14
libsdp-1.1.108-0.15.gd7fdb72
mstflint-1.4-0.9.gc683022
sdpnetstat-1.60-0.3.gb6e7425
perftest-1.3.0-0.42.gf350d3d
- MPI
openmpi-1.4.3-1
mvapich2-1.6-22. Added RHEL6 support
3. Added RHEL5.6 support
4. Improved RAW Ethernet QP support (requires ConnectX/ConnectX2 FW >= 2.8.0600)
5. NFSoRDMA was removed from the list of packages in the install script to prevent its installation by default.
To force NFSoRDMA installation, add the following lines to the ofed.conf:
nfsrdma=y
rnfs-utils=y
To get ofed.conf, run
# ./install.pl -p
After adding the lines above to ofed.conf, to install OFED run
# ./install.pl -c ofed.conf
OFED-1.5.2 Main Changes from OFED 1.5.1
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Added RHEL5.5, SLES11 SP1 and kernel 2.6.33 support
2. /etc/modprobe.conf deprecated
ib_ipoib use /etc/modprobe.d/ib_ipoib.conf ib_sdp use /etc/modprobe.d/ib_sdp.conf mlx4_en use /etc/modprobe.d/mlx4_en.conf
3. Added RAW Ethernet QP support in libibverbs
4. Added multicast support in perftest
5. Added new package: ibacm. See ibacm_release_notes.txt
6. Added new package infinipath-psm.
7. Updated packages:
libibverbs to rev 1.1.4-0.14.gb6c138b
libehca to rev 1.2.2-0.1.g69e1a88
libmlx4 to rev 1.0-0.13.g4e5c43f
libnes to rev 1.1.0
librdmacm to rev 1.0.13
dapl to rev 2.0.30
compat-depl to rev 1.2.19
libsdp to rev 1.1.103
mstflint to rev 1.4-0.6.g63179f4
perftest to rev 1.3.0-0.27
rds-tools to rev 2.0.4
Management:
opensm to rev 3.3.7
libibmad to rev 1.3.6
libibumad to rev 1.3.6
infiniband-diags to rev 1.5.7
MPI:
openmpi to rev 1.4.2-1
mvapich2 to rev 1.5.1-2.p1
mpitests to rev 3.2-923OFED-1.5.1 Main Changes from OFED 1.5
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Added RoCEE support - see RoCEE_README.txt
2. Added enhanced atomic operations to ConnectX (kernel only). See mlx4_release_notes.txt.
3. Updated Open MPI to rev 1.4.1-2ofed
4. Updated MVAPICH2 to rev 1.4.1
5. Updated DAPL to rev 2.0.27
6. Updated libnes to rev 1.0.1
7. Updated librdmacm to rev 1.0.11
8. Removed tvflash RPM
9. NFS-RDMA is not supported on SLES10 SP3
10. Fixed IPv6 support and IPv4 routing corner cases for RDMA CM
11. Bug fixes
OFED-1.5 Main Changes from OFED 1.4.2
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Note: For details regarding the various changes, please see the release notes for each package in the docs directory.
2.1 General changes
o Kernel code based on 2.6.30
o libraries location - all userspace libraries can be downloaded from
http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/
See BUILD_ID for exact locations
o Qlogic moved the low level driver from ipath to qib.
2.2 SDP
o Performance improvements
o Zero copy in beta level
2.3 uDAPL
o New UCM provider (ofa-v2-mlx4_0-1u) with IB UD-based CM per process. It is more scalable than rdma_cm (cma) or socket cm (scm).
o Common code base with WinOF 2.1
o Bug fixes
2.4 perftest
o Renamed tests:
ib_rdma_bw -> rdma_bw
ib_rdma_lat -> rdma_lat
2.5 Management
o OpenSM
- Support for Mesh Analysis for LASH routing algorithm
- Reloadable OpenSM configuration (preliminary implementation)
- Routing paths sorted balancing (for UpDown and MinHops)
- Weighted LID matrices calculation (for UpDown, MinHop and DOR)
- I/O nodes connectivity (for FatTree)
2.6 MPI:
a. OSU MVAPICH 1.2.0
b. Open MPI 1.4
c. OSU MVAPICH2 1.4
d. MPI tests 3.2
2.7 iSER:
o Available on:
- kernel.org: 2.6.30 and higher
- RHEL5.4
2.8 NFS-RDMA
o Added support for RHEL5.4, SLES10 SP3, kernel.org 2.6.25 and 2.6.30. Kernels 2.6.26 and 2.6.27 are not supported
o NFS-RDMA is in Beta level
===============================================================================
3. Known Issues
===============================================================================
The following is a list of general limitations and known issues of the various components of the OFED 3.5-rc2 release.
1. When upgrading from an earlier OFED version, the installation script does not stop the earlier OFED version prior to uninstalling it.
Workaround: Stop the old OFED stack (/etc/init.d/openibd stop) before upgrading to OFED 3.5 or reboot the server after OFED installation.
2. Memory registration by the user is limited according to administrator setting. See "Pinning (Locking) User Memory Pages" in OFED_tips.txt for system configuration.
3. Fork support from kernel 2.6.12 and above is available provided that applications do not use threads. fork() is supported as long as the parent process does not run before the child exits or calls exec(). The former can be achieved by calling wait(childpid), and the latter can be achieved by application specific means. The Posix system() call is supported.
4. The qib driver is supported only on 64-bit platforms.
5. IPoIB: brctl utilities do not work on IPoIB interfaces. The reason for that is that these utilities support devices of type Ethernet only.
6. In case uninstall is failing, check the error log and remove the remaining RPMs manually using 'rpm -e <rpms list>'.
7. On SLES11.x, set allow_unsupported_modules parameter to 1 in file:
/etc/modprobe.d/unsupported-modules. Without this the modules will not load.
Note: See the release notes of each component for additional issues.
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[ANNOUNCE] OFED-3.5-rc6 is available
Hi,
OFED 3.5-rc6 is available.
The tarball is available on:
http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-3.5/OFED-3.5-rc6.tgz
To get BUILD_ID run ofed_info
Please report any issues in bugzilla https://bugs.openfabrics.org/ for OFED 3.5
OFED-3.5-rc6 Main Changes from OFED 3.5-rc5
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
IB/rds: correct IB api usage
perftest-2.0-0.27.g2edd80a
Regards,
Vladimir
Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) Version 3.5-rc6 Release Notes January 2013
===============================================================================
Table of Contents
===============================================================================
1. Overview, which includes:
- OFED Distribution Rev 3.5 Contents
- Supported Platforms and Operating Systems
- Supported HCA and RNIC Adapter Cards and Firmware Versions
- Tested Switch Platforms
- Third party Test Packages
- OFED sources
2. Change log
3. Known Issues
===============================================================================
1. Overview
===============================================================================
These are the release notes of OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) release 3.5. The OFED software package is composed of several software modules, and is intended for use on a computer cluster constructed as an InfiniBand subnet or iWARP network.
Note: If you plan to upgrade the OFED package on your cluster, please upgrade all of its nodes to this new version.
1.1 OFED 3.5 Contents
-----------------------
The OFED package contains the following components:
- OpenFabrics core and ULPs:
- IB HCA drivers (mthca, mlx4, qib, ehca)
- iWARP RNIC driver (cxgb3, cxgb4, nes)
- core
- Upper Layer Protocols: IPoIB, SRP Initiator and target, iSER Initiator and target, RDS, uDAPL, qlgc_vnic and NFS-RDMA*.
- OpenFabrics utilities:
- OpenSM (OSM): InfiniBand Subnet Manager
- Diagnostic tools
- Performance tests
- Extra packages:
- infinipath-psm: Performance-Scaled Messaging API, an accelerated interface to Intel(R) HCAs
- Sources of all software modules (under conditions mentioned in the modules' LICENSE files)
- Documentation
1.2 Supported Platforms and Operating Systems
---------------------------------------------
o CPU architectures:
- x86_64
- x86
- ppc64
- ia64
o Linux Operating Systems:
- RedHat EL6.2 2.6.32-220.el6
- RedHat EL6.3 2.6.32-279.el6
- SLES11 SP2 3.0.13-0.27-default
- kernel.org 3.5 *
* Minimal QA for these versions.
1.3 HCAs and RNICs Supported
----------------------------
This release supports IB HCAs by Mellanox Technologies, Intel and IBM as well as iWARP RNICs by Chelsio Communications and Intel.
o Mellanox Technologies HCAs (SDR, DDR and QDR Modes are Supported):
- ConnectX(R) and ConnectX EN (fw-25408 Rev 2.9.1000)
- ConnectX-2 (fw-ConnectX2 Rev 2.9.1000)
- ConnectX-2 EN (fw-ConnectX2 Rev 2.9.1200)
- ConnectX-3 (fw-ConnectX3 Rev 2.10.0700) (FDR and FDR10 Modes are Supported)
- ConnectX-3 EN (fw-ConnectX3 Rev 2.10.0800)
For official firmware versions please see:
http://www.mellanox.com/content/pages.php?pg=firmware_download
o Intel (formerly QLogic) HCAs:
- Intel(R) True Scale DDR PCIe x8 and x16 HCAs
- Intel(R) True Scale QDR PCIe x8 Gen2 HCAs
o IBM HCAs:
- GX Dual-port SDR 4x IB HCA
- GX Dual-port SDR 12x IB HCA
- GX Dual-port DDR 4x IB HCA
- GX Dual-port DDR 12x IB HCA
o Chelsio RNICs:
- S310/S320 10GbE Storage Accelerators
- R310/R320 10GbE iWARP Adapters
o Intel RNICs:
- NE020 10Gb iWARP Adapter
1.4 Switches Supported
----------------------
This release was tested with switches and gateways provided by the following companies:
- Intel (formerly QLogic)
- Flextronics
- Oracle (Sun)
- Mellanox
1.5 Third Party Packages
------------------------
The following third party packages have been tested with OFED 3.5:
- MVAPICH2 - 1.8
- Intel MPI - 4.0.3/4.1
- Open MPI - 1.6/1.6.1/1.6.3
1.6 OFED Sources
----------------
All sources are located under git://git.openfabrics.org/
Linux:
------
URL: git://git.openfabrics.org/compat-rdma/linux-3.5.git
Branch: for-ofed-3.5
- Linux kernel subtree that includes files relevant for the OFED project only. Based on v3.5. Used to shorten git clone time.
Note: the regular Linux git tree can be used as well.
compat:
-------
URL: git://git.openfabrics.org/compat-rdma/compat.git
Branch: ofed
- Based on compat project (https://github.com/mcgrof/compat). The compat module provides functionality introduced in newer kernels to older kernels through a set of header files and exported symbols.
See https://github.com/mcgrof/compat/wiki for details.
- Used to replace kernel_addons in the previous OFED kernel tree.
compat-rdma:
------------
URL: git://git.openfabrics.org/compat-rdma/compat-rdma.git
Branch: master
User level Sources are downloaded from http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/
as written in the BUILD_ID
The kernel sources are based on Linux 3.5 mainline kernel. Its patches are included in the OFED sources directory.
For details see HOWTO.build_ofed.
The list of maintainers is available under:
http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/MAINTAINERS
===============================================================================
2. Change log
===============================================================================
OFED-3.5-rc6 Main Changes from OFED 3.5-rc5
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
IB/rds: correct IB api usage
perftest-2.0-0.27.g2edd80a
OFED-3.5-rc5 Main Changes from OFED 3.5-rc4
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
perftest-2.0-0.25.g971259d
OFED-3.5-rc4 Main Changes from OFED 3.5-rc3
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
RDMA/nes: Fixes for OFED-3.5 RC3
RDMA/cxgb4: Keep the maximum number of stag limited to T4_MAX_NUM_STAG Updated packages:
infinipath-psm-3.1-364.1140_open
OFED-3.5-rc3 Main Changes from OFED 3.5-rc2
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
RDMA/nes: Fix for terminate timer crash
RDMA/nes: Fix for crash when adding timer and timer is pending
RDMA/nes: Fix for incorrect multicast address
RDMA/nes: Fix for crash when adding timer
RDMA/nes: Locking fix to prevent race conditions
RDMA/nes: Changing nes driver version
RDMA/nes: Fixes for PAU handling
cxgb4: Initialize data structures before using.
cxgb4: Fix initialization of SGE_CONTROL register
cxgb4: Add embedded firmware and its configuration file support cxgb4/iw_cxgb4: Add LE hash collision bug fix for active and passive offloaded connections
cxgb4: Fix unable to get UP event from the LLD
cxgb4: Remove unnecessary #ifdef condition
cxgb4: Fix build warnings introduced after T4 configuration file support
cxgb4: Add support for T4 configuration fileiw_cxgb4: only log rx_data warnings if cpl status is non zero.
RDMA/cxgb4: fix mpa version mismatch
RDMA/cxgb4: abort connections that receive unexpected streaming mode data RDMA/cxgb4: Insert hwtid in pass_accept_req instead in pass_establish RDMA/cxgb4: Remove the limitation on maximum number of STAGs
linux-next-cherry-picks: Fix build failure for kernel < 3.2
IB/qib: remove EBUSY patchib_srp: Avoid that module removal can trigger a deadlockib_srp: Unbreak build on SLES 11 SP2ib_srp: Add post-3.5 upstream patchesib_srp: Avoid use-after-free during module unload on pre-2.6.36 kernels
Updated packages:
mstflint-1.4-1.23.g5c2032a
perftest-2.0-0.8.gaeb562e
qperf-0.4.9OFED-3.5-rc2 Main Changes from OFED 3.5-rc1
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
compat-rdma: Add SRP backport
compat-rdma: /etc/init.d/openibd: Fix LSB header
compat-rdma: IB/qib: linux-3.6 patches backported
compat-rdma: iw_cxgb4: Fix bug 2369 in OFED bugzilla
compat-rdma: IB/qib: fix compliance regression in 3.5
compat-rdma: RDMA/nes: Add linux-next-pending patches
compat-rdma: RDMA/nes: Updated backports
compat-rdma: NFSRDMA RHEL6.3 backport
compat-rdma: NFSRDMA SLES11SP2 backport
compat-rdma: linux-next-cherry-picks: RDMA/ucma.c: Different fix for ucma context uid=0, causing iWarp RDMA applications to fail in connection establishment
Updated packages:
infinipath-psm-3.0.1-115.1015_open
perftest-1.4.0-0.80.gd1763bd
qperf-0.4.7-0.2.gf3f7001OFED-3.5-rc1 Main Changes from OFED 3.2-rc1
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Based on linux-3.5 kernel
2. Updated packages:
ibacm-1.0.7
librdmacm-1.0.16
dapl-2.0.36
Management:
libibumad-1.3.8
infiniband-diags-1.6.1
opensm-3.3.15
3. Removed libsdp, sdpnetstat
OFED-3.5-rc1 Main Changes from OFED 1.5.4.1
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Based on linux-3.5 kernel
2. kernel-ib RPM renamed to compat-rdma
3. Removed MPI packages
4. Updated packages:
libibverbs-1.1.6
libmlx4-1.0.4
dapl-2.0.35
ibacm-1.0.6
perftest-1.4.0-0.66.g9074687
Management:
libibmad-1.3.9
opensm-3.3.14
infiniband-diags-1.6.0
OFED-1.5.4 Main Changes from OFED 1.5.3.2
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Add kernel 3.0 support
2. Add RHEL6.2 support
3. Add NFSRDMA to the list of packages to be installed by default on supported platforms
4. Add new InfiniBand link speeds: EDR/FDR/FDR10
5. OFA Kernel: See ofa_kernel.changelog.txt
6. Updated packages:
libibverbs-1.1.4-1.24.gb89d4d7
libmlx4-1.0.1-1.20.g6771d22
libnes-1.1.3
libcxgb3-1.3.1
libcxgb4-1.2.0
dapl-2.0.34
ibacm-1.0.5
librdmacm-1.0.15
infinipath-psm-2.9-926.1005_open
ibutils-1.5.7-0.1.g05a9d1a
perftest-1.3.0-0.56.gd6f6093
mstflint-1.4-1.18.g1adcfbf
Management:
libibmad-1.3.8
infiniband-diags-1.5.12
opensm-3.3.12
MPI:
mvapich2-1.7-5.2011svn5031
OFED-1.5.3.2 Main Changes from OFED 1.5.3.1
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Add RHEL5.7 support
2. Add RHEL6.1 support
3. Add kernel.org 2.6.37 - 2.6.39 support
4. ib-bonding-0.9.0-43 (SLES10 SP4 support)
OFED-1.5.3.1 Main Changes from OFED 1.5.3
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Fix QIB support on SLES10 SP3
OFED-1.5.3 Main Changes from OFED 1.5.2
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Updated packages:
dapl-2.0.32
librdmacm-1.0.14.1
ibacm-1.0.4
libibmad-1.3.7
libibumad-1.3.7
infiniband-diags-1.5.8
opensm-3.3.9
ibutils-1.5.7
libibverbs-1.1.4-1.22.g7257cd3.tar.gz
libmlx4-1.0.1-1.18.gb810a27.tar.gz
libnes-1.1.1
infinipath-psm-1.14
libsdp-1.1.108-0.15.gd7fdb72
mstflint-1.4-0.9.gc683022
sdpnetstat-1.60-0.3.gb6e7425
perftest-1.3.0-0.42.gf350d3d
- MPI
openmpi-1.4.3-1
mvapich2-1.6-22. Added RHEL6 support
3. Added RHEL5.6 support
4. Improved RAW Ethernet QP support (requires ConnectX/ConnectX2 FW >= 2.8.0600)
5. NFSoRDMA was removed from the list of packages in the install script to prevent its installation by default.
To force NFSoRDMA installation, add the following lines to the ofed.conf:
nfsrdma=y
rnfs-utils=y
To get ofed.conf, run
# ./install.pl -p
After adding the lines above to ofed.conf, to install OFED run
# ./install.pl -c ofed.conf
OFED-1.5.2 Main Changes from OFED 1.5.1
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Added RHEL5.5, SLES11 SP1 and kernel 2.6.33 support
2. /etc/modprobe.conf deprecated
ib_ipoib use /etc/modprobe.d/ib_ipoib.conf ib_sdp use /etc/modprobe.d/ib_sdp.conf mlx4_en use /etc/modprobe.d/mlx4_en.conf
3. Added RAW Ethernet QP support in libibverbs
4. Added multicast support in perftest
5. Added new package: ibacm. See ibacm_release_notes.txt
6. Added new package infinipath-psm.
7. Updated packages:
libibverbs to rev 1.1.4-0.14.gb6c138b
libehca to rev 1.2.2-0.1.g69e1a88
libmlx4 to rev 1.0-0.13.g4e5c43f
libnes to rev 1.1.0
librdmacm to rev 1.0.13
dapl to rev 2.0.30
compat-depl to rev 1.2.19
libsdp to rev 1.1.103
mstflint to rev 1.4-0.6.g63179f4
perftest to rev 1.3.0-0.27
rds-tools to rev 2.0.4
Management:
opensm to rev 3.3.7
libibmad to rev 1.3.6
libibumad to rev 1.3.6
infiniband-diags to rev 1.5.7
MPI:
openmpi to rev 1.4.2-1
mvapich2 to rev 1.5.1-2.p1
mpitests to rev 3.2-923OFED-1.5.1 Main Changes from OFED 1.5
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Added RoCEE support - see RoCEE_README.txt
2. Added enhanced atomic operations to ConnectX (kernel only). See mlx4_release_notes.txt.
3. Updated Open MPI to rev 1.4.1-2ofed
4. Updated MVAPICH2 to rev 1.4.1
5. Updated DAPL to rev 2.0.27
6. Updated libnes to rev 1.0.1
7. Updated librdmacm to rev 1.0.11
8. Removed tvflash RPM
9. NFS-RDMA is not supported on SLES10 SP3
10. Fixed IPv6 support and IPv4 routing corner cases for RDMA CM
11. Bug fixes
OFED-1.5 Main Changes from OFED 1.4.2
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Note: For details regarding the various changes, please see the release notes for each package in the docs directory.
2.1 General changes
o Kernel code based on 2.6.30
o libraries location - all userspace libraries can be downloaded from
http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/
See BUILD_ID for exact locations
o Qlogic moved the low level driver from ipath to qib.
2.2 SDP
o Performance improvements
o Zero copy in beta level
2.3 uDAPL
o New UCM provider (ofa-v2-mlx4_0-1u) with IB UD-based CM per process. It is more scalable than rdma_cm (cma) or socket cm (scm).
o Common code base with WinOF 2.1
o Bug fixes
2.4 perftest
o Renamed tests:
ib_rdma_bw -> rdma_bw
ib_rdma_lat -> rdma_lat
2.5 Management
o OpenSM
- Support for Mesh Analysis for LASH routing algorithm
- Reloadable OpenSM configuration (preliminary implementation)
- Routing paths sorted balancing (for UpDown and MinHops)
- Weighted LID matrices calculation (for UpDown, MinHop and DOR)
- I/O nodes connectivity (for FatTree)
2.6 MPI:
a. OSU MVAPICH 1.2.0
b. Open MPI 1.4
c. OSU MVAPICH2 1.4
d. MPI tests 3.2
2.7 iSER:
o Available on:
- kernel.org: 2.6.30 and higher
- RHEL5.4
2.8 NFS-RDMA
o Added support for RHEL5.4, SLES10 SP3, kernel.org 2.6.25 and 2.6.30. Kernels 2.6.26 and 2.6.27 are not supported
o NFS-RDMA is in Beta level
===============================================================================
3. Known Issues
===============================================================================
The following is a list of general limitations and known issues of the various components of the OFED 3.5-rc2 release.
1. When upgrading from an earlier OFED version, the installation script does not stop the earlier OFED version prior to uninstalling it.
Workaround: Stop the old OFED stack (/etc/init.d/openibd stop) before upgrading to OFED 3.5 or reboot the server after OFED installation.
2. Memory registration by the user is limited according to administrator setting. See "Pinning (Locking) User Memory Pages" in OFED_tips.txt for system configuration.
3. Fork support from kernel 2.6.12 and above is available provided that applications do not use threads. fork() is supported as long as the parent process does not run before the child exits or calls exec(). The former can be achieved by calling wait(childpid), and the latter can be achieved by application specific means. The Posix system() call is supported.
4. The qib driver is supported only on 64-bit platforms.
5. IPoIB: brctl utilities do not work on IPoIB interfaces. The reason for that is that these utilities support devices of type Ethernet only.
6. In case uninstall is failing, check the error log and remove the remaining RPMs manually using 'rpm -e <rpms list>'.
7. On SLES11.x, set allow_unsupported_modules parameter to 1 in file:
/etc/modprobe.d/unsupported-modules. Without this the modules will not load.
Note: See the release notes of each component for additional issues.
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[ANNOUNCE] OFED-3.5 is available
Hi,
OFED 3.5 is available.
The tarball is available on:
http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-3.5/OFED-3.5.tgz
To get BUILD_ID run ofed_info
Please report any issues in bugzilla https://bugs.openfabrics.org/ for OFED 3.5
OFED-3.5 Main Changes from OFED 1.5.4.1 and 1.5.4
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Based on linux-3.5 kernel
2. kernel-ib RPM renamed to compat-rdma
3. Removed MPI packages and tests
4. Removed SDP kernel module and libsdp, sdpnetstat
5. XRC is supported in kernel only
6. Removed support for the OSes:
- RHEL 5.X
- SLES 10 SPx
7. Updated packages:
- libibverbs-1.1.6
- librdmacm-1.0.16
- ibacm-1.0.7
- dapl-2.0.36
- opensm-3.3.15
- infiniband-diags-1.6.1
- libibmad-1.3.9
- libibumad-1.3.8
- infinipath-psm-3.1-364.1140_open
- libmlx4-1.0.4
- mstflint-1.4-1.23.g5c2032a
- perftest-2.0-0.27.g2edd80a
- qperf-0.4.9
Regards,
Vladimir
Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) Version 3.5 Release Notes February 2013
===============================================================================
Table of Contents
===============================================================================
1. Overview, which includes:
- OFED Distribution Rev 3.5 Contents
- Supported Platforms and Operating Systems
- Supported HCA and RNIC Adapter Cards and Firmware Versions
- Tested Switch Platforms
- Third party Test Packages
- OFED sources
2. Change log
3. Known Issues
===============================================================================
1. Overview
===============================================================================
These are the release notes of OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) release 3.5. The OFED software package is composed of several software modules, and is intended for use on a computer cluster constructed as an InfiniBand Fabric, an iWARP Network or a RoCE Fabric.
Note: If you plan to upgrade the OFED package on your cluster, please upgrade all of its nodes to this new version.
1.1 OFED 3.5 Contents
-----------------------
The OFED package contains the following components:
- OpenFabrics core and ULPs:
- IB HCA drivers (mthca, mlx4, qib, ehca)
- iWARP RNIC driver (cxgb3, cxgb4, nes)
- RoCE drivers (mlx4)
- ib core
- Upper Layer Protocols: IPoIB, SRP Initiator and target, iSER Initiator and target, RDS, uDAPL, qlgc_vnic and NFS-RDMA*.
- OpenFabrics utilities:
- OpenSM (OSM): InfiniBand Subnet Manager
- Diagnostic tools
- Performance tests
- Extra packages:
- infinipath-psm: Performance-Scaled Messaging API, an accelerated interface to Intel(R) HCAs
- Sources of all software modules (under conditions mentioned in the modules' LICENSE files)
- Documentation
1.2 Supported Platforms and Operating Systems
---------------------------------------------
o CPU architectures:
- x86_64
- x86
- ppc64
o Linux Operating Systems:
- RedHat EL6.2 2.6.32-220.el6
- RedHat EL6.3 2.6.32-279.el6
- SLES11 SP2 3.0.13-0.27-default
- kernel.org 3.5 *
* Minimal QA for these versions.
1.3 HCAs and RNICs Supported
----------------------------
This release supports IB HCAs by IBM, Intel and Mellanox Technologies, iWARP RNICs by Chelsio Communications and Intel and RoCE adapters by IBM and Mellanox.
InfiniBand Adapters
o IBM HCAs:
- GX Dual-port SDR 4x IB HCA
- GX Dual-port SDR 12x IB HCA
- GX Dual-port DDR 4x IB HCA
- GX Dual-port DDR 12x IB HCA
o Intel (formerly QLogic) HCAs:
- Intel(R) True Scale DDR PCIe x8 and x16 HCAs
- Intel(R) True Scale QDR PCIe x8 Gen2 HCAs
o Mellanox Technologies HCAs (SDR, DDR and QDR Modes are Supported):
- ConnectX(R) and ConnectX EN (fw-25408 Rev 2.9.1000)
- ConnectX-2 (fw-ConnectX2 Rev 2.9.1000)
- ConnectX-3 (fw-ConnectX3 Rev 2.11.0500) (FDR and FDR10 Modes are Supported)
For official firmware versions please see:
http://www.mellanox.com/content/pages.php?pg=firmware_download
iWARP Adapters
o Chelsio RNICs:
- S310/S320 10GbE Storage Accelerators
- R310/R320 10GbE iWARP Adapters
- T4 Based Adapters with the exception of the T420-SO-CR
o Intel RNICs:
- NE020 10Gb iWARP Adapter
RoCE Adapters
o IBM
- IBM Flex System EN4132 2-port 10 GbE RoCE
- IBM EL27 PCIe LP 2-Port 10GbE RoCE SFP+ adapter
- IBM EC28 PCIe 2-Port 10GbE RoCE SFP+ adapter
o Mellanox
- ConnectX-2 EN (fw-ConnectX2 Rev 2.9.1200)
- ConnectX-3 EN (fw-ConnectX3 Rev 2.11.0500)
1.4 Switches Supported
----------------------
This release was tested with switches and gateways provided by the following companies:
InfiniBand Switches
o Flextronics
- F-X430044
o Intel (formerly QLogic)
- 12200
o Mellanox
- IS-5030
- SX6025
- SX6036
iWARP Switches
o Fujitisu
- XG2000C 10Gb Ethernet Switch
RoCE Switches
o Arista o BLADE Network Technologies (BNT) o Mellanox
- SX1036
- SX1024
- SX1016
1.5 Third Party Packages
------------------------
The following third party packages have been tested with OFED 3.5:
- MVAPICH2 - 1.8
- Intel MPI - 4.1
- Open MPI - 1.6/1.6.1
1.6 OFED Sources
----------------
All sources are located under git://git.openfabrics.org/
Linux:
------
URL: git://git.openfabrics.org/compat-rdma/linux-3.5.git
Branch: for-ofed-3.5
- Linux kernel sub-tree that includes files relevant for the OFED project only. Based on v3.5. Used to shorten git clone time.
Note: the regular Linux git tree can be used as well.
compat:
-------
URL: git://git.openfabrics.org/compat-rdma/compat.git
Branch: ofed
- Based on compat project (https://github.com/mcgrof/compat). The compat module provides functionality introduced in newer kernels to older kernels through a set of header files and exported symbols.
See https://github.com/mcgrof/compat/wiki for details.
- Used to replace kernel_addons in the previous OFED kernel tree.
compat-rdma:
------------
URL: git://git.openfabrics.org/compat-rdma/compat-rdma.git
Branch: master
User level Sources are downloaded from http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/
as written in the BUILD_ID
The kernel sources are based on Linux 3.5 mainline kernel. Its patches are included in the OFED sources directory.
For details see HOWTO.build_ofed.
The list of maintainers is available under:
http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/MAINTAINERS
===============================================================================
2. Change log
===============================================================================
OFED-3.5 Main Changes from OFED 1.5.4.1 and 1.5.4
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Based on linux-3.5 kernel
2. kernel-ib RPM renamed to compat-rdma
3. Removed MPI packages and tests
4. Removed SDP kernel module and libsdp, sdpnetstat
5. XRC is supported in kernel only
6. Removed support for the OSes:
- RHEL 5.X
- SLES 10 SPx
7. Updated packages:
- libibverbs-1.1.6
- librdmacm-1.0.16
- ibacm-1.0.7
- dapl-2.0.36
- opensm-3.3.15
- infiniband-diags-1.6.1
- libibmad-1.3.9
- libibumad-1.3.8
- infinipath-psm-3.1-364.1140_open
- libmlx4-1.0.4
- mstflint-1.4-1.23.g5c2032a
- perftest-2.0-0.27.g2edd80a
- qperf-0.4.9
===============================================================================
3. Known Issues
===============================================================================
The following is a list of general limitations and known issues of the various components of the OFED 3.5-rc2 release.
1. When upgrading from an earlier OFED version, the installation script does not stop the earlier OFED version prior to uninstalling it.
Workaround: Stop the old OFED stack (/etc/init.d/openibd stop) before upgrading to OFED 3.5 or reboot the server after OFED installation.
2. Memory registration by the user is limited according to administrator setting. See "Pinning (Locking) User Memory Pages" in OFED_tips.txt for system configuration.
3. Fork support from kernel 2.6.12 and above is available provided that applications do not use threads. fork() is supported as long as the parent process does not run before the child exits or calls exec(). The former can be achieved by calling wait(childpid), and the latter can be achieved by application specific means. The Posix system() call is supported.
4. The qib driver is supported only on 64-bit platforms.
5. IPoIB: brctl utilities do not work on IPoIB interfaces. The reason for that is that these utilities support devices of type Ethernet only.
6. In case uninstall is failing, check the error log and remove the remaining RPMs manually using 'rpm -e <rpms list>'.
7. On SLES11.x, set allow_unsupported_modules parameter to 1 in file:
/etc/modprobe.d/unsupported-modules. Without this the modules will not load.
8. RDS is supported only on kernel.org 3.5 and not on any distro OS.
Note: See the release notes of each component for additional issues.