[ofa-general] minor usability nit with 1.2GA?

[Rick Jones]

Vladimir Sokolovsky wrote:
> Rick Jones wrote:
> 
>> So I was blythly running my netperf tests after resolving the problem 
>> with the existence of irqbalance.  I finished my TCP tests and was 
>> about to run the SDP tests.  I'd not modprobe'd the ib_sdp module, so 
>> my netperf tests died.  I then did the modprobe and it complained 
>> about symbol versions.
>>
>> Turns-out - or at least it seems that way - that my selection of just 
>> "basic" software didn't include SDP.  That's fine I suppose, but what 
>> happened then was I was left with a system with a hybrid of the 
>> previous OFED whatever bits (probably an RC for 1.2) and OFED GA bits.
>>
>> Perhaps this is simply "caveat emptor" but shouldn't there be some 
>> sort of warning/check that in only doing the partial install there 
>> would be some incompatible modules left laying around?  Or should I 
>> just do the "give me everything" option, shut-up and benchmark?-)
>>
> 
> Hi,
> OFED removes the previous software before installing the new one.
> So, there shouldn't be a mix of different OFED versions on the same 
> machine.
> 
> Can you send me the output of the following commands:
> # modinfo ib_sdp
> # rpm -qf /lib/modules/.../ib_sdp.ko (take the correct path from the 
> previous command)
> # rpm -q kernel-ib
> # ofed_info

I can, but at this point I'm not sure what it would show since I went 
back and did a "build me one with everything" install on both my 
systems.  If you still want to see it I can do that though.

rick

> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Vladimir