<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'><br><br><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote id="DWT301" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Bart Van Assche" <bvanassche@acm.org><br><b>To: </b>"Amir Hanania" <amir.hanania@intel.com>, ewg@lists.openfabrics.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Friday, December 6, 2013 9:02:04 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ewg] OFED 3.12 SRP client compatibility for RHEL 6.5<br><br>On 12/06/13 19:26, Hanania, Amir wrote:<br>> I had a need to run ofed 3.12 SRP client on _RHEL 6.5_.<br>> <br>> So, I fixed:<br>> 1. Compilation issue when SRP option is set. (scsi_target_unblock)<br>> 2. Crashing issue when I first tried to use it. (srp_queuecommand)<br>> <br>> It is now running on my RHEL 6.5 system. _Please see attached patch_.<br>> <br>> My question is what is the way to make this patch part of the official<br>> OFED-3.12 release ?<br><br>Please have a look at a similar patch that is present in OFED 3.5. It is<br>much more elaborate than this patch and e.g. enables lockless queueing,<br>which improves performance significantly. See also the patch called<br>compat-rdma-3.5/patches/0025-ib_srp-Backport-to-older-kernels.patch in<br>SRPMS/compat-rdma-3.5-OFED.3.5.src.rpm in OFED-3.5.tgz.<br><br>The same patch can also be found here:<br>http://git.openfabrics.org/git?p=compat-rdma/compat-rdma.git;a=tree;f=patches;hb=ofed_3_5.<br><br>Bart.<br></blockquote><br>Hi Bart,<br>I adopted 0025-ib_srp-Backport-to-older-kernels.patch from OFED-3.5 into compat-rdma (master) including changes Amir sent to me.<br>Please try http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-3.12-daily/OFED-3.12-20131209-0842.tgz<br><br>Regards,<br>Vladimir<br><br></div></body></html>