<div dir="ltr">I see.<div><br></div><div>Well, as I said, moving to another OS version is not the option that I have, as it creates overhead of finding out if other packages that we have in the machine is supported (and RHEL 7 is still in beta phase). </div>
<div><br></div><div>The release notes clearly says that the kernel version I am using is supported and so is iSER. I am really curious as to how much of testing really goes into this?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 8:07 PM, Narayan Desai <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:narayan.desai@gmail.com" target="_blank">narayan.desai@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">We were able to use the mainline kernel code. OFED started integrating upstream in preparation for kernel release 3.2. While it isn't the newest code, it has worked well enough for us. Things seem even better if you can make it to 3.5 or 3.8.<div>
-nld</div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 9:53 PM, Jingcha Joba <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pukkimonkey@gmail.com" target="_blank">pukkimonkey@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Can you tell me how you got it to working for 3.2?<div><br></div><div>The install script clearly checks for </div>
<div><br></div><div> if ($kernel =~ m/^3\.5/) {</div><div>..</div><div>..</div><div><div> $kernel_modules_info{'iser'}{'available'} = 1;</div>
</div><div><br></div><div>}</div><div><br></div><div>Well, to be honest I am surprised too. I see a lot of issues online regarding iSER, but there is no proper solution to this. I was hoping someone over here, might be able to help.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 7:44 PM, Narayan Desai <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:narayan.desai@gmail.com" target="_blank">narayan.desai@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">We've had good luck using the iSER support in newer mainline and ubuntu kernel (3.2+). I'd be somewhat surprised if that code hadn't been backported by redhat, but we don't run it so I haven't paid much attention to which patches they carry.<div>
-nld</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 6:29 PM, Jingcha Joba <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pukkimonkey@gmail.com" target="_blank">pukkimonkey@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div dir="ltr">Hi folks,<div><br></div><div>I am trying to install OFED 3.5-2 along with iSER initiator on a machine which has Scientific Linux 6.4 running kernel 2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64. This machine has 2 ConnectX -3 cards and a Qlogic Infiniband card. The objective is to use iSER on one of those two ConnectX cards.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Though I can smoothly install OFED 3.5-2, it didn't install iSER. Looking closely in the install script, I noticed that iSER is available for installation only if the kernel version is > 3.5</div>
<div><br></div><div>I manually "flagged" iSER to be available for the kernel I am using in the install script, only to have issue with the installation of compat-rdma.</div><div><br></div><div><div>/var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/compat-rdma-3.5/drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iser_initiator.c:273: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type</div>
<div>/var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/compat-rdma-3.5/drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iser_initiator.c:273: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type</div><div>/var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/compat-rdma-3.5/drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iser_initiator.c:273: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type</div>
<div>/var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/compat-rdma-3.5/drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iser_initiator.c:273: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type</div><div>/var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/compat-rdma-3.5/drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iser_initiator.c:273: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type</div>
<div>/var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/compat-rdma-3.5/drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iser_initiator.c:273: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type</div><div>/var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/compat-rdma-3.5/drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iser_initiator.c:279: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type</div>
<div>/var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/compat-rdma-3.5/drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iser_initiator.c:291: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type</div><div>/var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/compat-rdma-3.5/drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iser_initiator.c:296: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type</div>
</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I don't want to upgrade my machine as I would have to reinstall all the other software for this machine. And also because OFED 3.5-2 clearly states that minimal QA testing had been done for kernel 3.5.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Also I don't want to use MNLX OFED, as it would make my qlogic infiniband cards inaccessible. </div><div><br></div><div>What should I do to solve this issue I have?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div>
<div>--</div><div>Jing</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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