[openib-general] [ANNOUCEv2] OpenIB OpenSM 1.1.0: trunk now supports 1.8.0 features

Troy Benjegerdes hozer at hozed.org
Tue Sep 13 09:15:34 PDT 2005


On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 07:20:27AM -0400, Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> [This is a minor update to the previous announcement on this.]
> 
> OpenIB OpenSM 1.1.0 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 (5.3.0)
> 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 

We just had a node crash on our network, and it caused our OpenSM to
stop working.. we were running version openib-1.0.0..

I suppose this means I should start beating up on 1.1.0 now, right?



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