[openib-general] Re: Re: RFC: SDP plans

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Quoting r. Bryan O'Sullivan <bos at pathscale.com>:
> Subject: Re: Re: RFC: SDP plans
> 
> On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 11:39 -0800, Jeremy Brown wrote:
> 
> > you need to give
> > 
> >        LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/libsdp.so SIMPLE_LIBSDP=1

Its typically a better idea not to put the path in LD_PRELOAD:

LD_PRELOAD=libsdp.so SIMPLE_LIBSDP=1

this way thigns will work for 32 and 64 bit apps

> > on the command line to get SDP. My previous error was to leave out
> > "SIMPLE_LIBSDP=1". When I left that out, it silently failed over to
> > IPoIB.
> 
> OK, thanks for jogging my memory.  Michael, is this still the case?

Hmm, this could happen if the libsdp.conf isnt found or isnt readable.
It might be a good idea to make libsdp fail in this case. I'll put this on my
list.

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Michael S. Tsirkin
Staff Engineer, Mellanox Technologies