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

[Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen)]

I'm OK with delaying RC6 a few days to get this ironed out, we are
trying to get a few tvflash fixes checked in as well.

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 Betsy Zeller
> Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 5:06 PM
> To: Woodruff, Robert J
> Cc: Jack Morgenstein; EWG
> Subject: Re: [openfabrics-ewg] On vacation on Sep-13 till 12-Oct
> 
> 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,
> > 
> 
> 
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