[ofa-general] Compiling SRPT

[Vu Pham]

> Added a new wiki page based on Vu Pham's readme and issues with recent 
> kernels. I hope to keep it current as I get our targets up and running.
> 

Thanks for doing this.
Please use the latest readme from this link - 
http://mellanox.com/pdf/products/software/Gen2_SRPT_README.txt


> http://wiki.openfabrics.org/tiki-index.php?page=SRPT+Installation 
> <https://wiki.openfabrics.org/tiki-index.php?page=SRPT+Installation>
> 
> WinIB initiators --> Gentoo Linux SRP Target.
> 

I mainly test linux initiators with gen2 srp-target. I have 
not tested win srp initiator with the target.

> Anything wrong with the above approach, I would be interested in a best 
> practices if there is one. I saw a CentOS target post, is this more 
> stable or better performing?

There is no difference when you run the same srp target / 
scst codes in CentOS or RH/SuSe linux distributions. The 
storage back-end will determine the performance

-vu

> 
> Thanks.
> 
> On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 09:55 -0700, Vu Pham wrote:
>> Stanley Sufficool wrote:
>> >   Compiling on kernel 2.6.21-rc6 from kernel.org Torvald's branch
>> > 
>> > Got the latest srpt from the git repository on OpenFabrics and had the 
>> > following issues.
>> > 
>> > ib_srpt.c    Line 1997, missing second argument, should be?   
>> > sdev->scst_tgt = scst_register(tp, NULL);
>> > 
>>
>> Yes. You need the change if you test with top of scst svn 
>> trunk (or from version 0.9.6-pre2)
>> If you test with scst before 0.9.6-pre2 (ie. version <= 
>> 0.9.6-pre1) you don't need the second argument for 
>> scst_register()
>>
>>
>> > SCST was built successfully after fixing an issue in scst_vdisk.c 
>> > (missing #include <linux/sched.h>)
>>
>>
>> I tested with 2.6.20.x - I have not tested with 2.6.21-rcXX 
>> - you should send the patch to scst devel
>>
>> > 
>> > Just thought this would be nice to have documented, took me half a day 
>> > to track down as a novice in C programming.
>> > 
>>
>> there is *lean and mean* srpt's README in srpt_inc
>> SCST also has some document
>> You can add some wiki/notes for the problems in openfabrics 
>> wiki page https://wiki.openfabrics.org/tiki-index.php
>>
>> -vu
>>
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