[openfabrics-ewg] OFED 1.1-rc1 is available

Wed Aug 9 08:48:43 PDT 2006

Can you please make sure IPoIB HA is in rc2?

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: openfabrics-ewg-bounces at openib.org 
> [mailto:openfabrics-ewg-bounces at openib.org] On Behalf Of 
> Tziporet Koren
> Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 7:48 AM
> To: openfabrics-ewg at openib.org
> Cc: openib
> Subject: [openfabrics-ewg] OFED 1.1-rc1 is available
> 
> Hi,
> 
> In two week delay we publish OFED 1.1-RC1 on 
> https://openib.org/svn/gen2/branches/1.1/ofed/releases/
> File: OFED-1.1-rc1.tgz
> 
> Build_id:
> OFED-1.1-rc1
>  
> openib-1.1 (REV=8849)
> # User space
> https://openib.org/svn/gen2/branches/1.1/src/userspace
> Git:
> git://www.mellanox.co.il/~git/infiniband ofed_1_1
> ref: refs/heads/ofed_1_1
> commit df6aabce49695368fd004e6505102a1519b266a4
>  
> # MPI
> mpi_osu-0.9.7-mlx2.2.0.tgz
> openmpi-1.1-1.src.rpm
> mpitests-2.0-0.src.rpm
> 
> 
> OS support:
> ===========
> Novell:
> 	- SLES 9.0 SP3*
> 	- SLES10 (official release)*
> Redhat:
> 	- Redhat EL4 up3
> 	- Redhat EL4 up4 (was not tested yet)
> kernel.org:
> 	- Kernel 2.6.17*
> * Changed from 1.0 release
> 
> Note: Redhat EL4 up2, Fedora C4 and SuSE Pro 10 were dropped 
> from the 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-1.0:
> ===========================
> o Bug fixes
> o Enabled building 32-bit libraries on x86_64 and ppc64.
>   Note: sysfsutils and sysfsutils-devel 32-bit required.
> o Kernel code based on 2.6.18
> o Kernel hot-plug support in uverbs - removing module wait 
> till all user 
>   applications release their HCA resources.
> o Package sources (user space and kernel modules) are places 
> under: <prefix>/src/
>   Original kernel sources are not replaced
> o RDS was removed from the OFED package 
> o Set options in CMA & uCMA
> o OSM new features: 
> 	- Partition Manager (Pkey)
> 	- Pre-computed routing load from file 
> 	- Primitive QoS - As technology preview
> o SDP:
> 	- Improved latency (13 usec with netperf tcprr)
> 	- Implemented Naggle algorithm
> 	- Memory leaks fixes
> 	- Error handling added
> o MPI:
> 	- OSU - MVAPICH: Message coalescing to improve message rate
> 	- Open MPI 1.1-1: see changes: 
> http://svn.open-mpi.org/svn/ompi/trunk/NEWS
> 	- MPI tests: Replace to the new test versions from 
> LLNL, Intel, OSU
> o SRP:
> 	- Stability
> o iSER:
> 	- Stability
> 	- Testing more platforms (e.g. ppc64 and ia64)
> 	- Performance improvements
> o Management: 
> 	- Add saquery tool
> 	- Enhancement to ibnetdiscover tool with grouping function
> 	- New ibutils package: 
> 		o Port error counter check 
> 		o Port performance counters dump 
> 		o Link width and Link Speed check by flag
> o uDAPL:
> 	- Scalability features needed for Intel MPI 
> 	- Code was updated from trunk
> 
> 
> Limitations and known issues:
> =============================
> 1. ipath driver compilation fails on all systems 
> 2. iSER support in install script for SLES 10 is missing
> 3. SDP: 
> 	- 32 bit systems might run out of low memory when 
> opening hundreds of sockets. 
> 	- For Mellanox Sinai HCAs one must use latest FW 
> version (1.1.000).
> 
> Missing features that should be completed for RC2:
> ==================================================
> 1. SRP:
> 	- Complete testing with DM (Device Mapper) - for high 
> availability
> 	- New daemon
> 2. IPoIB: High availability support using a daemon in user level
> 3. SDP: support sending/receiving out of band data
> 4. Add Madeye utility
> 5. Fatal error support in mthca
> 
> 
> Please report any issues in bugzilla http://openib.org/bugzilla/
> 
> Tziporet & Vlad
> 
> 
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