[ewg] OFED 1.2 beta release

[Trishal Choudhari]

bug number 461 is opened

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From: Tziporet Koren [mailto:tziporet at mellanox.co.il]
Sent: Thu 3/15/2007 5:54 AM
To: Trishal Choudhari; EWG
Cc: OPENIB
Subject: RE: [ewg] OFED 1.2 beta release


Can you open a bug in bugzilla to openmpi component?
 
Thanks,
Tziporet

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From: Trishal Choudhari [mailto:trishal.choudhari at qlogic.com] 
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 12:17 PM
To: Tziporet Koren; EWG
Cc: OPENIB
Subject: RE: [ewg] OFED 1.2 beta release


 
not able to install OFED1.2 beta1 on RHEL4 UP4 and SLES 10 64 bit machines.
 
seems like some problem with MPI.
 
I did custom installation without selecting any of the MPI components and installation went fine.
 
please find  the logs attached.
 
 
trishal

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From: ewg-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org on behalf of Tziporet Koren
Sent: Wed 3/14/2007 9:12 AM
To: EWG
Cc: OPENIB
Subject: [ewg] OFED 1.2 beta release


Hi,

OFED 1.2-beta1 is available on  http://www.openfabrics.org/builds/ofed-1.2/
File:OFED-1.2-beta1.tgz <http://www.openfabrics.org/builds/ofed-1.2/OFED-1.2-beta1.tgz>  
BUILD_ID contains info on all packages sources location.

Please report any issues in bugzilla https://bugs.openfabrics.org/

Tziporet & Vlad

OS support:
Novell:
    - SLES 9.0 SP3
    - SLES10
Redhat:
    - Redhat EL4 up4 and up3
    - Redhat EL5 beta2 (only partially tested)
kernel.org:
    - 2.6.20
    - 2.6.19

Note: Fedora C6 and SuSE Pro 10 are not part of the official list.
We keep the backport patches for these OSes and make sure OFED compile and loaded properly but will not do full QA cycle.

Systems:
    * x86_64
    * x86
    * ia64
    * ppc64 

Main changes from OFED-1.1-alpha:


1.	Added packages: 

	1.	madeye utility 
	2.	DAPL utils (contains dapl test) 
	3.	Support for MPI selector 
	4.	RDS tools package 

2.	RDS to support SLES10 and RHEL up3 and up4, and tested with crload 
3.	ipath driver is now available and libipathverbs  is working 
4.	Fixed 82 bugs (see attachment for all bugs fixed)
	

Limitations and known issues:
Major issues:

bug_id	 bug_severity	 op_sys	 assigned_to	 short_short_desc	
400	 blocker	 RHEL 4	 sean.hefty at intel.com	 OFED 1.2 IPoIB HA/CM/multicast problems	
456	 critical	 SLES 10	 arlin.r.davis at intel.com	 dapltest won't compile on SLES10 IA64	
419	 critical	 SLES 10	 mee at pathscale.com	 OFED 1.2 does not build ipath components on SLES10/PPC64	
420	 critical	 All	 monil at voltaire.com	 PKey table reordering caused by SM failover stops ipoib traffic	
402	 critical	 Other	 mst at mellanox.co.il	 On stress kernel: BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0!	
431	 critical	 SLES 10	 mst at mellanox.co.il	 IPoIB CM locks up server on SLES10/RHEL4 ppc64	
436	 major	 RHEL 4	 arlin.r.davis at intel.com	 Intel MPI and HP MPI DDR bandwidth dropped after OFED 1.2 alpha	
351	 major	 SLES 10	 bugzilla at openib.org	 Routing table problem in SLES10 when using port #2	
449	 major	 All	 bugzilla at openib.org	 DMA vs CQ race on IA64 Altix platform	
450	 major	 RHEL 4	 bugzilla at openib.org	 IPoIB BW drop (measured with iperf) with mtu=1500 on x86 RH4UP3	
406	 major	 RHEL 4	 eitan at mellanox.co.il	 "double free" abort in ibdaigui	
418	 major	 RHEL 4	 mst at mellanox.co.il	 IPoIB CM causes large message IPv4 multicast to fail	
445	 major	 SLES 10	 pasha at mellanox.co.il	 MVAPICH won't compile on ppc64	
438	 major	 All	 rolandd at cisco.com	 OFED SRP does not work with DDN IB storage	

See bugzilla for all issues open.


Tasks that should be completed for RC1:


1.	Support RHEL5
	
2.	PPC better support (several PPC specific bugs are still open)
	
3.	Bonding support by IPOIB 
4.	Fix all blocker, critical and major bugs 

RC1 due date is 29-March


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