[openfabrics-ewg] Some intitial test notes on RC5

Fri May 26 10:22:27 PDT 2006

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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 
> Steffen Persvold
> Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 1:39 AM
> To: openfabrics-ewg at openib.org
> Subject: RE: [openfabrics-ewg] Some intitial test notes on RC5
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I've also tested RC5, specifically on a rhel4 u2 x86_64 
> platform. Everything
> was fine (I had all the pre-req RPMs installed), however when 
> trying to install
> 32bit libraries and 64bit libraries at the same time, I get :
> 
> % rpm -i i386/libibverbs-1.0.3-0.i386.rpm
>      file /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ofed.conf from install of 
> libibverbs-1.0.3-0
> conflicts with file from package libibverbs-1.0.3-0
> 
> 
> Might I suggest renaming them to 'ofed-lib.conf' and 
> 'ofed-lib64.conf' or
> something in that order?
> 
> The OpenFabrics IB stack solves something people in HPC have 
> been wanting for
> some time, running 32bit applications natively on 64bit 
> machines (64bit
> kernels). By allowing the i386 and x86_64 RPMs to co-exist it 
> enables that (and
> it actually works to, at least with Scali MPI Connect which 
> is what I'm
> testing).
> 
> _Or_ a possible better solution would be to compile both 
> 32bit and 64bit
> libraries in the same package on x86_64 (I guess the same 
> applies to ppc64) ?
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Steffen Persvold
> Technical Director Americas
> tel. 508-281-7100 x401
> fax. 508-281-7171
> 
> http://www.scali.com/
> Scaling the Linux datacenter
>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: openfabrics-ewg-bounces at openib.org [mailto:openfabrics-ewg-
> > bounces at openib.org] On Behalf Of Betsy Zeller
> > Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 2:06 AM
> > To: openfabrics-ewg at openib.org
> > Subject: [openfabrics-ewg] Some intitial test notes on RC5
> > 
> > Here's some initial test results from QLogic on installing RC5.
> > 
> > 1) The tarball contains a broken symbolic link, but things seemed to
> > work with this removed.
> > 
> > lrwxrwxrwx  1 1078 101    39 May 25 14:27 OFED-1.0-rc5
> > -> /mswg2/work/vlad/IBGD/Prod/OFED-1.0-rc5
> > 
> > 2) Installation failed on SUSE 9.3:
> > 
> > This attempt failed due to the RPM dependency on sysfsutils. This
> > package is called udev on SUSE 9.3. In all likelihood the proper
> > dependency would be on libsysfs.so.
> > 
> > Here is the error from SUSE 9.3:
> > 
> > Checking dependencies. Please wait ...
> > 
> > ERROR: sysfsutils 64-bit version is required to build 
> libibverbs package
> > ERROR: The sysfsutils package is required to build 
> libibverbs_devel RPM
> > 
> > 3) RHEL 4 SP 3:
> > 
> > This attempt failed due to an unspecified dependency on 
> tcl-devel. Once
> > tcl-devel was installed, it built successfully.
> > 
> > 
> > 4) SLES 10
> > We tried this on Beta 8 (will also try on SLES10 RC1), and 
> the attempt
> > failed due to a patch failure. The log is attached.
> > 
> > 5) Fedora Core 3:
> > 
> > This attempt failed due to an unspecified dependency on 
> tcl-devel. Once
> > tcl-devel was installed, it built successfully.
> > 
> > 6) Fedora Core 4:
> > Like RHEL4 and FC3, except that the machine tested already had
> > tcl-devel installed.
> > 
> > 7) After installation and reboot, the systems were configured with
> > less than unsatisfactory IP addresses for the IB ports.
> > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ib* assigned addresses by
> > incrementing the first octet of the eth0 address. This took the
> > interface out of the 192.168.*.* protected range. I installed
> > the RPMs manually, using rpm -ivh RPMS/*, so this was not done
> > by the OFED installer, but rather a script in one of the RPMs.
> > 
> > This problem really needs to be fixed before we ship 1.0.
> > 
> > Once the IP addresses were fixed, IPoIB and SDP worked just as
> > expected.
> > 
> > --
> > Betsy Zeller
> > Director of Software Engineering
> > QLogic Corporation
> > System Interconnect Group
> > (formerly PathScale, Inc)
> > 2071 Stierlin Court, Suite 200
> > Mountain View, CA, 94043
> > 1-650-934-8088
> 
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