[openfabrics-ewg] [openib-general] RHEL5 and OFED ...

[Shirley Ma]

openib-general-bounces at openib.org wrote on 10/16/2006 01:50:49 PM:
> On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 15:25 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > Quoting r. Maestas, Christopher Daniel <cdmaest at sandia.gov>:
> > > Subject: Re: [openib-general] RHEL5 and OFED ...
> > >
> > > > Now for userspace - does RHEL5 include at least libibverbs-1.0?
> > > > This has been released a while back, and Roland makes regular
bugfix
> > > releases.
> > >
> > > Here's what I see on a rhel4 u4 system:
> > > ---
> > > $ rpm -q libibverbs
> > > libibverbs-1.0.3-1
> > > ---
> > >
> > > So I would think rhel5 would have at least that or greater.  When I
> > > compiled rpms for 1.1rc7 it generated:
> > > ---
> > > # ls libibverbs-*
> > > libibverbs-1.0.4-0.x86_64.rpm
libibverbs-utils-1.0.4-0.x86_64.rpm
> > > libibverbs-devel-1.0.4-0.x86_64.rpm
> >
> > Dough, would it be possible to update this + libmthca?
>
> Possibly.  What's the justification?  What's in 1.0.4 that is the
> primary reason for wanting to update from 1.0.3?
>
> --
> Doug Ledford <dledford at redhat.com>

I am not sure whether this already has an answer.
The justification is madvise(..., MADV_DONTFORK) is used to make fork()
work for verbs consumers in the recent packages. I hope same patch will be
in libehca.

thanks
Shirley Ma
IBM Linux Technology Center
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