[openfabrics-ewg] On vacation on Sep-13 till 12-Oct

[Betsy Zeller]

Woody - we just verified that RC4 with the verbs-related fix for our
driver runs IntelMPI. We are now building RC5, and will let you know
what happens with that. Please contact Robert Walsh directly to see if
you can figure out what's happening on the systems you are running. 

- Betsy

On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 16:41 -0700, Woodruff, Robert J wrote:
> Depends how long you want to hold the release up.
> I have personally never been able to get Intel MPI
> running with the Qlogic card, and have never been
> able to get get the ib verbs tests like ib_rdma_bw
> to run under stress on the Qlogic cards,
> so it is unclear as to
> how long it will take to fix. 
> That being said, We would really like it
> if Intel MPI could work with the Qlogic card
> for OFED 1.1 if a fix can be found quickly. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Betsy Zeller [mailto:betsy at pathscale.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 4:36 PM
> To: Woodruff, Robert J
> Cc: Aviram Gutman; Jack Morgenstein; EWG
> Subject: Re: [openfabrics-ewg] On vacation on Sep-13 till 12-Oct
> 
> In that case, we do need an RC6. 
> 
> Intel MPI worked fine with the QLogic adapter in RC3. RC4 was broken
> because of the verbs change. We changed our driver to address the
> obvious incorrect symbol error, but the one day turnaround to RC5 did
> not allow for a lot of testing. There still appear to be verbs-related
> issues in RC5. 
> 
> Robert Walsh is working with Woody to identify the problem , but we'll
> need to have an RC6 with that fix. Also, the fix for OpenFabrics bug
> #233 "SDP kernel panic when errors are seen" should go in - Michael
> Tsirkin has indicated he wants to fix this before 1.1 releases.
> 
> - Betsy
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 15:16 -0700, Woodruff, Robert J wrote:
> 
> > also, we cannot get the Qlogic HCA to work with Intel MPI
> > even with RC5, so unless there is going to be an RC6 to fix this,
>