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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman\, Times\, serif";color:black'>Hi Ram,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>We have made some changes to our process in our transition from OFED 3.18-x to OFED 4.8. I have attached my old process notes from OFED 3.18-x which may be helpful but please realize that I need to update these to reflect the changes we have made for OFED 4.8.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Here are a few things that may help:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Many of the OFED User packages have been moved.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>a.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Previous location for everything: <a href="http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/">http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>b.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>New location for some: </span>(<a href="https://github.com/linux-rdma/rdma-core">https://github.com/linux-rdma/rdma-core</a>)<span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Check out the attached ofed.conf-example file<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>a.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>You can use this file to select which packages you do not want to install.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>3.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Check out the attached Readme file and OFED Tips (dated wrong but has 4.8 info in it)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>4.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Use the new installation flag ‘--without-<package>’ to eliminate things that are not working for you.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>a.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>For example ./install.pl --all --without-ocrdma --without-nfsrdma<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>5.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Review Vladimir Sokolovsky postings to the EWG reflector (see one attached)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Rupert<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailEndCompose"></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Amrani, Ram [mailto:Ram.Amrani@cavium.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, November 27, 2016 12:05 PM<br><b>To:</b> Rupert Dance; ewg@lists.openfabrics.org<br><b>Cc:</b> Elior, Ariel; Rahman, Ameen<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [ewg] Failure to build OFED 4.8 on RHEL 7.2 with native kernel<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thanks Rupert, I was now able to build compat-rdma.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>However I’m uncertain about my process –<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in'><span style='color:#1F497D'>1.</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='color:#1F497D'>I’ve <i>ran install.pl</i> excluding compat-rdma, compat-rdma-devel (and vendors)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in'><span style='color:#1F497D'>2.</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='color:#1F497D'>I’ve extracted the compat-rdma rpm, configured it as you suggested and ran ‘make install’<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I observed that after the installation I got quite a few symbol version problems with – iser/t (but iSER was included), xprtrdma and svcrdma (that I don’t even see how can they be included or excluded).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>And also after this process, I’m lacking the source placed under /usr/src/compat-rdma-4.8/ prevents me from building our own driver.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Is there a better process to build OFED, with sources , and perhaps one that will work well with the above modules?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Ram<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Rupert Dance [<a href="mailto:rsdance@soft-forge.com">mailto:rsdance@soft-forge.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, November 27, 2016 6:09 PM<br><b>To:</b> Amrani, Ram <<a href="mailto:Ram.Amrani@cavium.com">Ram.Amrani@cavium.com</a>>; <a href="mailto:ewg@lists.openfabrics.org">ewg@lists.openfabrics.org</a><br><b>Cc:</b> Elior, Ariel <<a href="mailto:Ariel.Elior@cavium.com">Ariel.Elior@cavium.com</a>>; Rahman, Ameen <<a href="mailto:Ameen.Rahman@cavium.com">Ameen.Rahman@cavium.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [ewg] Failure to build OFED 4.8 on RHEL 7.2 with native kernel<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman\, Times\, serif";color:black'>Hi Ram,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>There are still some backports that are not complete and qib is one of them. Here is a suggested work around from Vlad back on 11/2/2016<o:p></o:p></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><hr size=2 width="100%" noshade style='color:#7030A0' align=center></span></div><p class=MsoPlainText>There are no QIB backports yet in OFED-4.8.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>If you work on RHEL7.2 then use the following configuration parameters:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText># ./configure --with-core-mod --with-user_mad-mod --with-user_access-mod --with-addr_trans-mod --with-mlx4-mod --with-mlx4_en-mod --with-ipoib-mod<o:p></o:p></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><hr size=2 width="100%" noshade style='color:#7030A0' align=center></span></div><p class=MsoPlainText>There may be some other modules that have been added since 11/2/2016 but this should get you started. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Here is what I see for srpms listed in OFED-4.8-20161120-0830.tgz<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td width=319 valign=top style='width:239.4pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoPlainText>srpms in OFED-4.8-20161120-0830.tgz<o:p></o:p></p></td><td width=319 valign=top style='width:239.4pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-left:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoPlainText>Inside rdma_core<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td width=319 valign=top style='width:239.4pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoPlainText><img border=0 width=341 height=359 id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image001.png@01D248DF.DE8969A0" alt="cid:image001.png@01D248DF.DE8969A0"><o:p></o:p></p></td><td width=319 valign=top style='width:239.4pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoPlainText><img border=0 width=157 height=169 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image002.png@01D248DF.DE8969A0" alt="cid:image002.png@01D248DF.DE8969A0"><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td width=638 valign=top style='width:6.65in;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoPlainText>srpms in OFED-3.18-2.tgz<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td width=638 valign=top style='width:6.65in;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoPlainText><img border=0 width=285 height=672 id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image003.png@01D248DF.DE8969A0" alt="cid:image003.png@01D248DF.DE8969A0"><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Hope this helps<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Rupert<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>-----Original Message-----<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>From: ewg [<a href="mailto:ewg-bounces@lists.openfabrics.org">mailto:ewg-bounces@lists.openfabrics.org</a>] On Behalf Of Amrani, Ram<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2016 9:42 AM<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>To: <a href="mailto:ewg@lists.openfabrics.org">ewg@lists.openfabrics.org</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Cc: Elior, Ariel; Rahman, Ameen<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Subject: [ewg] Failure to build OFED 4.8 on RHEL 7.2 with native kernel<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Hi All,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>I have downloaded the latest OFED build OFED-4.8-20161120-0830 and tried to install it on RHEL 7.2, with native kernel 3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>I was expecting it to build well since the readme states under section "1.2 Supported Platforms and Operating Systems":<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> o Linux Operating Systems:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> - RedHat EL7.2 3.10.0-327.el7<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> - SLES12 3.12.28-4<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> - SLES12.1 3.12.49-11.1<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> - kernel.org 4.8 *<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>The build failed on 'qib', and when I disabled all vendors it still failed but this time on iser.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>The iSER failure:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> /var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/compat-rdma-4.8/drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iscsi_iser.h:51:23: fatal error: scsi/iser.h: No such file or directory<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> #include <scsi/iser.h><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>This hints that a kernel version higher than 4.4 is required because that specific file was first introduced in kernel 4.5.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>(the qib failure was similar - implicit declaration for a function introduced in a newer kernel).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Perhaps there's a step I've missed in the installation?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Is this combination supposed to work? Has anyone tried it?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Ram<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>ewg mailing list<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="mailto:ewg@lists.openfabrics.org">ewg@lists.openfabrics.org</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="http://lists.openfabrics.org/mailman/listinfo/ewg">http://lists.openfabrics.org/mailman/listinfo/ewg</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>