[openib-general] git stuff

Steve Wise swise at opengridcomputing.com
Wed Nov 29 06:28:05 PST 2006


On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 10:54 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > Quoting r. Woodruff, Robert J <robert.j.woodruff at intel.com>:
> > Subject: RE: git stuff
> > 
> > Michael wrote,
> > >OFED kernel git tree is already there at
> > >~vlad/ofed_1_2/.git
> > 
> > >This includes SDP, cma patches, backports to a variety of kernels
> > >and scripts to build against old kernels.
> > >So the kernel part is sufficiently covered in my opinion.
> > 
> > I took a look at vlad/ofed_1_2 but did not see the ucma in
> > the infiniband/core directory. Is this suppose to be there or is
> > there a separate patch for this somewhere else ?
> > The ucma was part of the SVN tree and OFED 1.1 but seems to be 
> > missing from the ofed_1.2 tree that is posted.
> > 
> > woody
> 
> Yes, that needs to be added. Basically this depends on the multicast changes in
> SA and these seem to cause crashes in IPoIB, so I'm wating for it to be fixed -
> otherwise I can do no real work.  An alternative would be for now to take the
> UCMA code without multicast (that's basically what OFED 1.1 had) and later
> replace it.
> 
> If someone can do the job of preparing UCMA code without the multicast
> dependency, I can put it in the 1.2 git for now.
> 

I suggest if someone does this work, they also submit it for inclusion
in 2.6.20.  User mode iwarp requires the ucma code...

Steve.






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