[ofa-general] ofed works on kernels with 64Kbyte pages?

[Olga Shern]

 Hi,

We also tested OFED 1.3 on PPC64 with  SLES10 SP1 UP1  with connectX and
Arbel HCAs

Olga S (Voltaire)

On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 9:00 PM, Tziporet Koren <tziporet at dev.mellanox.co.il>
wrote:

> Roland Dreier wrote:
>
> >  > I know it's a long shot, but has anyone tried using OFED on
> >  > a kernel with 64Kbyte pages?
> >  >  > SGI would like to support that, but I've gotten reports that
> >  > something is not working (e.g., "ib_rdma_bw" doesn't work on  > an
> > ia64 kernel with 64Kb pages). This is with the mthca driver,  > fwiw.
> >  >  > Unfortunately a conspiracy of h/w prevents me from reproducing
> >  > this right now, so I don't have more details. But I'd be very
> >  > curious to know if anyone can verify that OFED does/doesn't
> >  > work with 64Kbyte pages.
> >
> > I don't know about OFED, but I've tried various things on 64KB PAGE_SIZE
> > systems and it seems to work.  It wouldn't surprise me if there are
> > issues since the drivers and firmware gets a lot less testing in such
> > situations but it "should work" -- I'd be happy to help debug if anyone
> > has concrete problems.
> >
> >
> OFED was tested on PPC64 with RHEL5.1 which works with 64K pages as a
> default.
> This was tested with our ConnectX cards (mlx4 driver)
> I think IBM are using the same OS for their ehca cards too
>
> Tziporet
>
>

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