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<p><tt>openib-general-bounces@openib.org wrote on 10/16/2006 01:50:49 PM:<br>
> On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 15:25 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:<br>
> > Quoting r. Maestas, Christopher Daniel <cdmaest@sandia.gov>:<br>
> > > Subject: Re: [openib-general] RHEL5 and OFED ...<br>
> > > <br>
> > > > Now for userspace - does RHEL5 include at least libibverbs-1.0?<br>
> > > > This has been released a while back, and Roland makes regular bugfix<br>
> > > releases.<br>
> > > <br>
> > > Here's what I see on a rhel4 u4 system:<br>
> > > ---<br>
> > > $ rpm -q libibverbs<br>
> > > libibverbs-1.0.3-1<br>
> > > ---<br>
> > > <br>
> > > So I would think rhel5 would have at least that or greater. When I<br>
> > > compiled rpms for 1.1rc7 it generated:<br>
> > > ---<br>
> > > # ls libibverbs-*<br>
> > > libibverbs-1.0.4-0.x86_64.rpm libibverbs-utils-1.0.4-0.x86_64.rpm<br>
> > > libibverbs-devel-1.0.4-0.x86_64.rpm<br>
> > <br>
> > Dough, would it be possible to update this + libmthca?<br>
> <br>
> Possibly. What's the justification? What's in 1.0.4 that is the<br>
> primary reason for wanting to update from 1.0.3?<br>
> <br>
> -- <br>
> Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com><br>
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<tt>I am not sure whether this already has an answer. </tt><br>
<tt>The justification is madvise(..., MADV_DONTFORK) is used to make fork() work for verbs consumers in the recent packages. I hope same patch will be in libehca.</tt><br>
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thanks<br>
Shirley Ma<br>
IBM Linux Technology Center</body></html>