[openfabrics-ewg] On vacation on Sep-13 till 12-Oct

aviram at dev.mellanox.co.il aviram at dev.mellanox.co.il
Fri Sep 15 00:01:24 PDT 2006


Betsy,

By when will you feel comfortable publishing RC6? We published RC5 fairly
quickly because we aware of the issues in RC4 you had and wanted to get
you going.

>From our side we have the fix of bug 233 and one IPoIB issue.


-Aviram

> I'm OK with delaying RC6 a few days to get this ironed out, we are
> trying to get a few tvflash fixes checked in as well.
>
> Scott Weitzenkamp
> SQA and Release Manager
> Server Virtualization Business Unit
> Cisco Systems
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: openfabrics-ewg-bounces at openib.org
>> [mailto:openfabrics-ewg-bounces at openib.org] On Behalf Of Betsy Zeller
>> Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 5:06 PM
>> To: Woodruff, Robert J
>> Cc: Jack Morgenstein; EWG
>> Subject: Re: [openfabrics-ewg] On vacation on Sep-13 till 12-Oct
>>
>> Woody - we just verified that RC4 with the verbs-related fix for our
>> driver runs IntelMPI. We are now building RC5, and will let you know
>> what happens with that. Please contact Robert Walsh directly to see if
>> you can figure out what's happening on the systems you are running.
>>
>> - Betsy
>>
>> On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 16:41 -0700, Woodruff, Robert J wrote:
>> > Depends how long you want to hold the release up.
>> > I have personally never been able to get Intel MPI
>> > running with the Qlogic card, and have never been
>> > able to get get the ib verbs tests like ib_rdma_bw
>> > to run under stress on the Qlogic cards,
>> > so it is unclear as to
>> > how long it will take to fix.
>> > That being said, We would really like it
>> > if Intel MPI could work with the Qlogic card
>> > for OFED 1.1 if a fix can be found quickly.
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Betsy Zeller [mailto:betsy at pathscale.com]
>> > Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 4:36 PM
>> > To: Woodruff, Robert J
>> > Cc: Aviram Gutman; Jack Morgenstein; EWG
>> > Subject: Re: [openfabrics-ewg] On vacation on Sep-13 till 12-Oct
>> >
>> > In that case, we do need an RC6.
>> >
>> > Intel MPI worked fine with the QLogic adapter in RC3. RC4 was broken
>> > because of the verbs change. We changed our driver to address the
>> > obvious incorrect symbol error, but the one day turnaround
>> to RC5 did
>> > not allow for a lot of testing. There still appear to be
>> verbs-related
>> > issues in RC5.
>> >
>> > Robert Walsh is working with Woody to identify the problem
>> , but we'll
>> > need to have an RC6 with that fix. Also, the fix for OpenFabrics bug
>> > #233 "SDP kernel panic when errors are seen" should go in - Michael
>> > Tsirkin has indicated he wants to fix this before 1.1 releases.
>> >
>> > - Betsy
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 15:16 -0700, Woodruff, Robert J wrote:
>> >
>> > > also, we cannot get the Qlogic HCA to work with Intel MPI
>> > > even with RC5, so unless there is going to be an RC6 to fix this,
>> >
>>
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