[openib-general] [ANNOUCE] OpenIB OpenSM: trunk now supports 1.8.0 features

[Eitan Zahavi]

Great news!

We will be sending patches for the main trunk from now on.

Eitan

Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> OpenIB OpenSM now includes the OpenSM 1.8.0 functionality.
> 
> Major thanks go to Yael Kalka and Eitan Zahavi of Mellanox.
> 
> This is a complete merge of the osm-1.8.0-branch up through version
> 3368.
> 
> There are 2 known caveats with this so far:
> 1. Some Anafa ports cannot be brought to active if not most recent
> firmware (5.3.3)
> 2. Solaris interoperability needs work again (I'm working on this)
> 
> New Features
> 
> Semistatic LID assignment 
> 	No LID change on SM restart or node reboot 
> 	Critical for IPoIB to avoid communication loss 
> Irresponsive port scan during light sweep 
> 	No response but Link state not down 
> Switch ports with HCA neighbor have lower HOQLife 
> 	Faster drain so bad HCA not impact subnet 
> Pkeys 
> 	Not reordered 
> 	Default values not set 
> DDR and QDR support 
> Options Cache 
> 	including all non command line 
> 	Use –c flag to create /var/cache/osm/opensm.opts 
> Kill –HUP 
> 	Forces a new full sweep
> 
> Bug Fixes
> 
> Overflow on SA queries (now drops them if overflow) 
> Multicast tree build took forever on large clusters 
> MTU and Rate selectors ignored during MCMemberRecord Query 
> Deleted multicast groups existing until deferred deletion 
> Crashed on any zero Port or Node GUID 
> SMInfo with a non default PKey was dropped 
> DDR and QDR rates were not calculated correctly 
> Fail to error Service Record delete of non-existing record 
> Memory leak in SA Client code 
> Multicast Join did not check for ‘JoinState != 0’ 
> PortInfo SA query fail if base_lid component used 
> OpenSM runs out of MLIDs even though some groups were deleted 
> Complib race in Passive Lock caused a deadlock (now use rwlock) 
> Many more less severe bugs fixed
> 
> NOTE: The old OpenIB OpenSM is still available on the osm-pre-1.8.0
> branch.
> 
> -- Hal
> 
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