[openfabrics-ewg] OFED-1.0-rc6 is available

Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) jsquyres at cisco.com
Thu Jun 8 03:19:25 PDT 2006


Please file this in bugzilla for proper tracking.
 
Thanks.


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	From: openfabrics-ewg-bounces at openib.org
[mailto:openfabrics-ewg-bounces at openib.org] On Behalf Of Sharma, Karun
	Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 2:17 AM
	To: Tziporet Koren; openfabrics-ewg at openib.org
	Subject: RE: [openfabrics-ewg] OFED-1.0-rc6 is available
	
	
	Hi Tziporet:
	 
	At the end of install script, we specify IP addresses for ib0
and ib1 interfaces. Then i reboot the system. After the system comes
back, i observed that ip address of ib0 interface (ifconfig ib0) is
missing. We need to configure again the ip address of ib0 and ib1
interfaces. Please let me know if this is a bug. Why do we need to
specify same ip address twice? I can see the IP address which i
configure during install time in ifcfg-ib0 file.
	 
	I have seen this behaviour on RHEL4 up2 and FC4 servers. Below
are some logs.
	 
	Thanks
	Karun
	 
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	[root at ss23 ~]# /etc/init.d/opensmd status
	opensm (pid 3216) is running...
	[root at ss23 ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ib0
	DEVICE=ib0
	BOOTPROTO=static
	IPADDR=172.20.51.223
	NETMASK=255.255.255.0
	NETWORK=172.20.0.0
	BROADCAST=172.20.51.255
	ONBOOT=yes
	[root at ss23 ~]# ifconfig ib0
	ib0       Link encap:InfiniBand  HWaddr
00:00:00:14:FE:80:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00  
	          inet6 addr: fe80::206:6a00:a000:537/64 Scope:Link
	          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:2044  Metric:1
	          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
	          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
	          collisions:0 txqueuelen:128 
	          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
	[root at ss23 ~]# 
	
	
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	From: openfabrics-ewg-bounces at openib.org on behalf of Tziporet
Koren
	Sent: Wed 6/7/2006 10:58 AM
	To: Tziporet Koren; openfabrics-ewg at openib.org
	Cc: openib-general
	Subject: [openfabrics-ewg] OFED-1.0-rc6 is available
	
	

	Hi All,

	 

	We have prepared OFED 1.0 RC6.

	Release location:
https://openib.org/svn/gen2/branches/1.0/ofed/releases

	File: OFED-1.0-rc6.tgz

	 

	Note: This release is the code freeze release for OFED 1.0. Only
showstopper bugs will be fixed.

	 

	BUILD_ID:

	OFED-1.0-rc6

	 

	openib-1.0 (REV=7772)

	# User space

	https://openib.org/svn/gen2/branches/1.0/src/userspace

	# Kernel space

	
https://openib.org/svn/gen2/branches/1.0/ofed/tags/rc6/linux-kernel

	Git:

	ref: refs/heads/for-2.6.17

	commit d9ec5ad24ce80b7ef69a0717363db661d13aada5

	 

	# MPI

	mpi_osu-0.9.7-mlx2.1.0.tgz

	openmpi-1.1b1-1.src.rpm

	mpitests-1.0-0.src.rpm 

	 

	OSes:

	    * RH EL4 up2: 2.6.9-22.ELsmp

	    * RH EL4 up3: 2.6.9-34.ELsmp

	    * Fedora C4: 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4

	    * SLES10 RC2: 2.6.16.16-1.6-smp

	    * SUSE 10 Pro: 2.6.13-15-smp

	    * kernel.org: 2.6.16.x

	 

	Systems:

	    * x86_64

	    * x86

	    * ia64

	    * ppc64

	 

	Main changes from RC5:

	1.       SDP - libsdp implementation of RFC proposed by Eitan
Zahavi; bug fixes in kernel module. See details below.

	2.       SRP - bug fixes

	3.       Open MPI - new package based on 1.1b1-1

	4.       OSU-MPI - See details below.

	5.       iSER: Enhanced to support SLES 10 RC1.

	6.      IPoIB default configuration changed:

	a.       IPoIB configuration at install time is now optional.

	b.       The default configuration of IPoIB interfaces (if
performed at install time) is DHCP; it can be changed during interactive
installation.

	c.       For unattended installation one can give a new
configuration file. See the example below.

	7.       Bug Fixes.

	 

	 

	Package limitations:

	1.       The ipath driver does not compile/load on most systems.
To be fixed in final release. 
	Meanwhile, one must work with custom build and not choose ipath
driver, or change in the conf file: ib_ipath=n.
	I attached a reference ofed-no_ipath.conf file. 
	Once Qlogic fixes the backport patches I will publish them on
the release page so any one interested can use them with this release.

	2.       iSER is working on SuSE SLES 10 RC1 only

	 

	 

	IPoIB configuration file example:

	If you are going to install OFED on a 32 node cluster and want
to use static IPoIB configuration based on Ethernet device configuration
follow instructions below:

	 

	Assume that the Ethernet IP addresses (eth0 interfaces) of the
cluster are: 10.0.0.1 - 10.0.0.32

	and you want to assign to ib0 IP addresses in the range:
192.168.0.1 - 192.168.0.32

	and to ib1 IP addresses in the range: 172.16.0.1 - 172.16.0.32

	 

	Then create the file ofed_net.conf with the following lines:

	 

	LAN_INTERFACE_ib0=eth0
	IPADDR_ib0=192.168.'*'.'*'
	NETMASK_ib0=255.255.0.0
	NETWORK_ib0=192.168.0.0
	BROADCAST_ib0=192.168.255.255
	ONBOOT_ib0=1
	LAN_INTERFACE_ib1=eth0
	IPADDR_ib1=172.16.'*'.'*'
	NETMASK_ib1=255.255.0.0
	NETWORK_ib1=172.16.0.0
	BROADCAST_ib1=172.16.255.255
	ONBOOT_ib1=1

	 

	Note: '*' will be replaced by the corresponding octal from the
eth0 IP address.

	 

	Assuming that you already have OFED configuration file
(ofed.conf) with selected packages (created by running
OFED-1.0/install.sh)

	Run:    ./install.sh -c ofed.conf -net ofed_net.conf

	 

	 

	 

	OSU MPI:

	*        Added mpi_alltoall fine tuning parameters

	*        Added default configuration/documentation file
$MPIHOME/etc/mvapich.conf

	*        Added shell configuration files
$MPIHOME/etc/mvapich.csh , $MPIHOME/etc/mvapich.csh

	*        Default MTU was changed back to 2K for InfiniHost III
Ex and InfiniHost III Lx HCAs. For InfiniHost card recommended value is:
	VIADEV_DEFAULT_MTU=MTU1024

	 

	 

	SDP Details: 

	libsdp enhancements according to the RFC:

	1.	New config syntax (please see libsdp.conf) 
	2.	With no config or empty config use SIMPLE_LIBSDP mode 
	3.	Support listening on both tcp and sdp 
	4.	Support trying both connections (first SDP then TCP) 
	5.	Support IPv4 embedded in IPv6 (also convert back
address) 
	6.	Comprehensive verbosity logging 
	7.	BNF based config parser 

	 

	Current SDP limitations:

	*        SDP currently does not support sending/receiving out of
band data (MSG_OOB).

	*        Generally, SDP supports only SOL_SOCKET socket options.

	*        The following options can be set but actual support is
missing:

	o       SO_KEEPALIVE - no keepalives are sent

	o       SO_OOBINLINE - out of band data is not supported

	o       SDP currently supports setting the following SOL_TCP
socket options:

	o       TCP_NODELAY, TCP_CORK - but actual support for these
options is still missing

	*         SDP currently does not handle Zcopy mode messages
correctly and does not set MaxAdverts properly in HH/HAH messages.

	 

	 

	OFED components tested by Mellanox:

	*	Verbs over mthca 
	*	IPoIB 
	*	OpenSM 
	*	OSU-MPI 
	*	SRP 
	*	SDP 
	*	IB administration utils (ibutils) 

	 

	 

	Please send us any issues you encounter and/or test results.

	 

	Thanks

	Tziporet & Vlad

	 

	 

	Tziporet Koren

	Software Director

	Mellanox Technologies

	mailto: tziporet at mellanox.co.il <mailto:tziporet at mellanox.co.il>

	Tel +972-4-9097200, ext 380

	 

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