[ewg] OFED 1.2 RC1 is delayed to Wed April 4

Stefan Roscher ossrosch at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Apr 10 10:04:47 PDT 2007


Hi,

on Tuesday 10 April 2007 13:41, you wrote:
> Roland Dreier wrote:
> >  >   It looks like most member from the group will vote ipoib_cm to be default. 
> >  >   However from ehca point of view we need a means to disable ipoib_cm if ehca 
> >  >   is built on ppc64. In such one case we would prefer that the basic ipoib 
> >  >   functionallity  is used instead, because current ehca does not support SRQ. 
> >  >   Furthermore if a user has selected ipoib_cm say by mistake and loads it, 
> >  >   an error message should be prompted clearly.
> >
> > I think the requirement is that IPoIB cleanly falls back to datagram
> > mode if a particular adapter does not support SRQ.  But I thought that
> > is what the current code does?  Or is that broken?
> >
> >
> >   
> This is exactly the way its working
> Have you seen any issue with ehca on PPC with this?
 
no, we don't see any issue. 
It was not completly clear to me that ipoib_cm is working this way already.

MfG Stefan 







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