[ofa-general] RE: OFED 1.2 beta blocking bugs

Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen) sweitzen at cisco.com
Thu Mar 8 09:34:17 PST 2007


Sean, can you please take a look?

Scott Weitzenkamp
SQA and Release Manager
Server Virtualization Business Unit
Cisco Systems
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael S. Tsirkin [mailto:mst at mellanox.co.il] 
> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 6:07 AM
> To: Sean Hefty
> Cc: Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen); Openfabrics-ewg at openib.org; 
> Vladimir Sokolovsky; Tziporet Koren; Pavel Shamis; Jeff 
> Squyres (jsquyres); Shaun Rowland; Woodruff, Robert J; 
> general at lists.openfabrics.org
> Subject: Re: OFED 1.2 beta blocking bugs
> 
> > Quoting Sean Hefty <mshefty at ichips.intel.com>:
> > Subject: Re: OFED 1.2 beta blocking bugs
> > 
> > > Sean there's a critical bug related to multicast module,
> > > and a blocker bug related to ucma module assigned to you.
> > 
> > Not sure who assigned me the bugs,
> 
> I did.
> 
> > but I did look at them and added comments.
> 
> Yes. but they are not very helpful ones.
> 
> > The multicast bug appears to be related to the ipoib HA, 
> rather than the 
> > multicast module.
> 
> ipoib HA is just a script that brings interfaces up/down.  
> Juding by the error
> messages, we are trying to attach QP to a non-existent MC group.  You
> implemented both the multicast module and ported ipoib to it, so ...
> 
> > I haven't done anything with backport patches, and I'm not 
> sure who has.
> 
> I did the backport for ucma, since it seemed no one else would bother.
> The patch in question is
> kernel_patches/backport/2.6.19/2_misc_device_to_2_6_19.patch
> (and same for other kernels)
> 
> All I did, though, was revert the patch that updated ucma to 
> new miscdevice API:
> I don't however use ucma at all, and I only made sure the 
> code compiles.
> 
> And, I have my hands full with IPoIB and SDP.
> 
> Please feel free to take over and replace this patch with 
> whatever you find fit.
> 
> -- 
> MST
> 



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