[openfabrics-ewg] Some intitial test notes on RC5

[Steffen Persvold]

Will do, Thanks.

Cheers,

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: Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen) [mailto:sweitzen at cisco.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 7:22 PM
> To: Steffen Persvold; openfabrics-ewg at openib.org
> Subject: RE: [openfabrics-ewg] Some intitial test notes on RC5
> 
> Please open an enhancement request in http://openib.org/bugzilla/
> 
> 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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