[ofa-general] OFED 1.2 beta release

Tziporet Koren tziporet at mellanox.co.il
Wed Mar 14 07:12:52 PDT 2007


  Hi,

OFED 1.2-beta1 is available on  http://www.openfabrics.org/builds/ofed-1.2/
File:OFED-1.2-beta1.tgz 
<http://www.openfabrics.org/builds/ofed-1.2/OFED-1.2-beta1.tgz>
BUILD_ID contains info on all packages sources location.

Please report any issues in bugzilla https://bugs.openfabrics.org/

Tziporet & Vlad

*_OS support:_*
Novell:
    - SLES 9.0 SP3
    - SLES10
Redhat:
    - Redhat EL4 up4 and up3
    - Redhat EL5 beta2 (only partially tested)
kernel.org:
    - 2.6.20
    - 2.6.19

Note: Fedora C6 and SuSE Pro 10 are not part of the official list.
We keep the backport patches for these OSes and make sure OFED compile 
and loaded properly but will not do full QA cycle.

_*Systems:*_
    * x86_64
    * x86
    * ia64
    * ppc64

_*Main changes from OFED-1.1-alpha:*_

   1. Added packages:
         1. madeye utility
         2. DAPL utils (contains dapl test)
         3. Support for MPI selector
         4. RDS tools package
   2. RDS to support SLES10 and RHEL up3 and up4, and tested with crload
   3. ipath driver is now available and libipathverbs  is working
   4. Fixed 82 bugs (see attachment for all bugs fixed)

_*Limitations and known issues:*_
Major issues:
bug_id 	bug_severity 	op_sys 	assigned_to 	short_short_desc
400 	blocker 	RHEL 4 	sean.hefty at intel.com 	OFED 1.2 IPoIB 
HA/CM/multicast problems
456 	critical 	SLES 10 	arlin.r.davis at intel.com 	dapltest won't compile 
on SLES10 IA64
419 	critical 	SLES 10 	mee at pathscale.com 	OFED 1.2 does not build ipath 
components on SLES10/PPC64
420 	critical 	All 	monil at voltaire.com 	PKey table reordering caused by 
SM failover stops ipoib traffic
402 	critical 	Other 	mst at mellanox.co.il 	On stress kernel: BUG: soft 
lockup detected on CPU#0!
431 	critical 	SLES 10 	mst at mellanox.co.il 	IPoIB CM locks up server on 
SLES10/RHEL4 ppc64
436 	major 	RHEL 4 	arlin.r.davis at intel.com 	Intel MPI and HP MPI DDR 
bandwidth dropped after OFED 1.2 alpha
351 	major 	SLES 10 	bugzilla at openib.org 	Routing table problem in 
SLES10 when using port #2
449 	major 	All 	bugzilla at openib.org 	DMA vs CQ race on IA64 Altix platform
450 	major 	RHEL 4 	bugzilla at openib.org 	IPoIB BW drop (measured with 
iperf) with mtu=1500 on x86 RH4UP3
406 	major 	RHEL 4 	eitan at mellanox.co.il 	"double free" abort in ibdaigui
418 	major 	RHEL 4 	mst at mellanox.co.il 	IPoIB CM causes large message 
IPv4 multicast to fail
445 	major 	SLES 10 	pasha at mellanox.co.il 	MVAPICH won't compile on ppc64
438 	major 	All 	rolandd at cisco.com 	OFED SRP does not work with DDN IB 
storage


See bugzilla for all issues open.


_*Tasks that should be completed for RC1:*_

   1. Support RHEL5
   2. PPC better support (several PPC specific bugs are still open)
   3. Bonding support by IPOIB
   4. Fix all blocker, critical and major bugs

*RC1 due date is 29-March*

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