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

[Aviram Gutman]

Betsy Zeller wrote:
> Aviram - we've spent a fair bit of time today trying to build the OFED
> package with Bryan's changes to libipathverbs. However, there appears to
> be a problem now that libipathverbs depends on libibverbs. Bryan has
> filed a bug (234), currently assigned to Vlad. If you can get that
> turned around by Monday, we'll build and test on Monday and Tuesday,
> which would allow for RC6 on Wednesday. Note that Bryan's libipathverbs
> changes are all in SVN, so they are already available if you want to try
> an early build.
>
> Thanks, Betsy
>
> On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 10:01 +0300, aviram at dev.mellanox.co.il wrote:
>   
>> Betsy,
>>
>> By when will you feel comfortable publishing RC6? We published RC5 fairly
>> quickly because we aware of the issues in RC4 you had and wanted to get
>> you going.
>>
>> From our side we have the fix of bug 233 and one IPoIB issue.
>>
>>
>> -Aviram
>>
>>     
>>> 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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>>     
Yes, we can give you "pre-rc6" on Monday