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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">OFED-1.2.5.3 is ready:</FONT>
<BR><A HREF="http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-1.2.5/OFED-1.2.5.3.tgz"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-1.2.5/OFED-1.2.5.3.tgz</FONT></U></A>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Changes since OFED 1.2.5</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">- RDS: </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> - Performance enhancements</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> - GA for Oracle 11</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">- IPoIB:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> - Use NAPI by default</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> - For small received packets, allocate a new, smaller SKB to relief accounting</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> on the socket.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> - IPOIB CM - tx use unsignalled QP</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">- mlx4:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> - Enable changing default max HCA resource limits using module options.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> - Support opening of more resources then the default by increasing command</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> timeout for INIT_HCA to 10 seconds</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">- PPC64 support:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> - Fixed compilation problems on SLES10 SP1</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Changes from OFED 1.2.5.2:</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">- IPoIB: Fix kernel oops in Connected mode</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">- Install: Disable Open MPI from SLES10 SP1 due to compilation problems (to be fixed in OFED 1.3)</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Tziporet & Vlad</FONT>
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