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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=589022523-25042006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Right now I don't have the resources to test OFED,
especially all the configurations that</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=589022523-25042006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>you intent to support. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
class=589022523-25042006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I am hoping to
get some time </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=589022523-25042006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>to try it on at least one configuration, but I don't think
I can test it on all of the configurations</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><FONT color=#0000ff><SPAN
class=589022523-25042006><FONT>and kernels that you are trying to support. The
way I understand it, OFED supports every
kernel.org</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><FONT color=#0000ff><SPAN
class=589022523-25042006><FONT>kernel since 2.6.12, plus Suse and RedHat and
perhaps other distro kernels ? Is that correct
?</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><FONT color=#0000ff><SPAN
class=589022523-25042006>What tests do you currently run on each
configuration ? Do you have a published test plan
?</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=589022523-25042006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>It might be beneficial for you to stress test the rest of
the OFED stack using</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=589022523-25042006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Intel MPI, I use it to test my backport patches for the
trunk and it seems to be a pretty</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=589022523-25042006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>good stress test. We could also let you have access to the
Intel MPI test suite,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=589022523-25042006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>which is a couple hundred MPI test programs.
</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=589022523-25042006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Would you like to use Intel MPI as part of your test suite
for OFED ?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=589022523-25042006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>woody</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Aviram Gutman
[mailto:aviram@mellanox.co.il] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:57
AM<BR><B>To:</B> Woodruff, Robert J; Tziporet Koren; amehrotr@cisco.com;
openfabrics-ewg@openib.org<BR><B>Cc:</B> Alexander Smirnov; Davis, Arlin
R<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [openfabrics-ewg] rc3 installation
issues.<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>Woody,<BR><BR><BR>The whole issue is to have as many people as
possible participating in the effort. We are running almost all the stack and I
thought that if you already running Intel MPI on gen2 it should be not a big
effort to run it on
OFED.<BR><BR>Aviram<BR>Regards,<BR>
Aviram <BR><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: Woodruff, Robert
J<BR>To: Aviram Gutman; Tziporet Koren; Amit Mehrotra (amehrotr);
openfabrics-ewg@openib.org<BR>CC: Alexander Smirnov; Davis, Arlin R<BR>Sent: Tue
Apr 25 09:15:57 2006<BR>Subject: RE: [openfabrics-ewg] rc3 installation
issues.<BR><BR>Intel MPI needs a stable uDAPL and supporting usermode verbs/uCMA
and such.<BR>If you have that, then Intel MPI should work. If you want to get a
copy of Intel MPI<BR>to use in your testing of OFED, I can put you in contact
with our Intel MPI lead and he can<BR>provide you with the code and a
license.<BR><BR>________________________________<BR><BR>From: Aviram Gutman [<A
href="mailto:aviram@mellanox.co.il">mailto:aviram@mellanox.co.il</A>]<BR>Sent:
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 9:09 AM<BR>To: Woodruff, Robert J; Tziporet Koren; Amit
Mehrotra (amehrotr); openfabrics-ewg@openib.org<BR>Cc: Alexander Smirnov; Davis,
Arlin R<BR>Subject: RE: [openfabrics-ewg] rc3 installation
issues.<BR><BR><BR>Please work with Vlad to make sure you have what you need in
rc4.<BR><BR>Regards,<BR>
Aviram<BR><BR><BR>________________________________<BR><BR>From: Woodruff, Robert
J [<A
href="mailto:robert.j.woodruff@intel.com">mailto:robert.j.woodruff@intel.com</A>]<BR>Sent:
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 6:56 PM<BR>To: Aviram Gutman; Tziporet Koren; Amit
Mehrotra (amehrotr); openfabrics-ewg@openib.org<BR>Cc: Alexander Smirnov; Davis,
Arlin R<BR>Subject: RE: [openfabrics-ewg] rc3 installation
issues.<BR><BR><BR>Not yet. Last I heard, there was no uDAPL in OFED that is
neeed by Intel MPI. Maybe RC4.<BR><BR><BR><BR> Tziporet wrote,<BR><BR>>
Regarding uDAPL and RHEL4 (up2 & 3): Since we have not completed the uCMA
backport for kernel 2.6.9 we eliminated
uDAPL <BR><BR><BR>________________________________<BR><BR>From: Aviram
Gutman [<A
href="mailto:aviram@mellanox.co.il">mailto:aviram@mellanox.co.il</A>]<BR>Sent:
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 8:48 AM<BR>To: Woodruff, Robert J; Tziporet Koren; Amit
Mehrotra (amehrotr); openfabrics-ewg@openib.org<BR>Cc: Alexander Smirnov; Davis,
Arlin R<BR>Subject: RE: [openfabrics-ewg] rc3 installation
issues.<BR><BR><BR>Woody,<BR><BR>Are you testing Intel MPI on top of
OFED?<BR><BR>Regards,<BR>
Aviram<BR><BR><BR>________________________________<BR><BR>From:
openfabrics-ewg-bounces@openib.org [<A
href="mailto:openfabrics-ewg-bounces@openib.org">mailto:openfabrics-ewg-bounces@openib.org</A>]
On Behalf Of Woodruff, Robert J<BR>Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 11:33 PM<BR>To:
Tziporet Koren; Amit Mehrotra (amehrotr); openfabrics-ewg@openib.org<BR>Cc:
Alexander Smirnov; Davis, Arlin R<BR>Subject: RE: [openfabrics-ewg] rc3
installation issues.<BR><BR><BR><BR>The latest patches I have is for SVN 6509 on
the trunk.<BR><A
href="https://openib.org/svn/gen2/branches/backport-to-2.6.9/">https://openib.org/svn/gen2/branches/backport-to-2.6.9/</A><BR>infiniband-backport-svn6509-to-2.6.9-34.EL-kernel-fixups-00.diff<BR>infiniband-backport-svn6509-to-2.6.9-34.EL-kernel-fixups-01.diff<BR>infiniband-backport-svn6509-to-2.6.9-openib-drivers-02.diff<BR>infiniband-backport-svn6509-to-2.6.9-openib-fixups-03.diff<BR><BR>I
don't split the patches by component, but rather have one to strip out the old
IB<BR>code in RedHat EL4.0, one to apply needed kernel changes to the RedHat
kernel,<BR>one for the openib drivers, and one for openib fixups that are
needed.<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>________________________________<BR><BR>From:
Tziporet Koren [<A
href="mailto:tziporet@mellanox.co.il">mailto:tziporet@mellanox.co.il</A>]<BR>Sent:
Monday, April 24, 2006 11:43 AM<BR>To: Woodruff, Robert J; Amit Mehrotra
(amehrotr); openfabrics-ewg@openib.org<BR>Cc: Alexander Smirnov; Davis, Arlin
R<BR>Subject: RE: [openfabrics-ewg] rc3 installation issues.<BR><BR><BR><BR>We
plan to do a backport of uCMA for RC4.<BR><BR>Can you point me to your backport
of uCMA for
2.6.9-34EL<BR><BR><BR><BR>Thanks,<BR><BR>Tziporet<BR><BR><BR><BR>-----Original
Message-----<BR>From: Bob Woodruff [<A
href="mailto:robert.j.woodruff@intel.com">mailto:robert.j.woodruff@intel.com</A>]<BR>Sent:
Monday, April 24, 2006 6:56 PM<BR>To: Tziporet Koren; Amit Mehrotra (amehrotr);
openfabrics-ewg@openib.org<BR>Cc: Alexander Smirnov; Davis, Arlin R<BR>Subject:
RE: [openfabrics-ewg] rc3 installation issues.<BR><BR><BR><BR> Tziporet
wrote,<BR><BR>> Regarding uDAPL and RHEL4 (up2 & 3): Since we have not
completed the uCMA backport for kernel 2.6.9 we eliminated
uDAPL <BR><BR>> installation in case of this kernel. We also
indicated this in the package limitation mail.<BR><BR><BR><BR>Note that there
are two uDAPL providers for OpenIB. One uses standard sockets for connections
(socket CM)<BR><BR>and the other uses CMA. I would suggest that you should
include the socket CM uDAPL provider even<BR><BR>if you do not have a backport
for uCMA.<BR><BR>BTW. - My backport patches contain backport for uCMA for
2.6.9-34-EL if you need an
example.<BR><BR><BR><BR>woody<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR></FONT></P></BODY></HTML>