[ewg] [PATCH] doc/nes: more updates to nes release notes for OFED 1.4.

Chien Tung chien.tin.tung at intel.com
Thu Dec 4 08:08:29 PST 2008


More updates to nes release notes for OFED 1.4

Signed-off-by: Chien Tung <chien.tin.tung at intel.com>
--
Tziporet,

Please apply this patch after the last doc patch I sent out on 11/27.  BTW,
I am still using the old filename.

Thanks,

Chien

 neteffect_rnic_release_notes.txt |   44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/neteffect_rnic_release_notes.txt b/neteffect_rnic_release_notes.txt
index ebc1531..caf6efe 100644
--- a/neteffect_rnic_release_notes.txt
+++ b/neteffect_rnic_release_notes.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ The iw_nes and libnes modules provide RDMA and NIC support for the
 Intel-NE NE020 series of adapters.  
 
 ============================================
-Loadable Module options:
+Loadable Module options
 ============================================
 The following options can be used when loading the iw_nes module:
 
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ limit_maxrdreqsz = 0
 
 
 ============================================
-Runtime Module options:
+Runtime Module options
 ============================================
 The following options can be used to alter the behavior of the iw_nes module:
 
@@ -66,3 +66,43 @@ dynamic interrupt moderation
     ethtool -C eth2 rx-frames-high 255  == high watermark of rx queue
     ethtool -C eth2 rx-usecs-low 40     == smallest interrupt moderation timer
     ethtool -C eth2 rx-usecs-high 1500  == largest interrupt moderation timer
+
+
+============================================
+Recommended setting
+============================================
+RDMA connections use the same TCP port space as the host stack.  To avoid
+conflicts, set rdma_cm module option unify_tcp_port_sapce to 1 by adding 
+the following to /etc/modprobe.conf:
+
+    options rdma_cm unify_tcp_port_space=1
+
+
+============================================
+Known issues
+============================================
+On RHEL4 update 4, we have observed /dev/infiniband/uverbs0 does not
+always get created.  This device file is used for user-mode access to
+accelerated interface.  Current workaround is to change the start order
+for openibd(S05openibd) to after network(S10network).  For systems that
+start at runlevel 3 do the following:
+
+    mv /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S05openibd /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S11openibd
+
+For runlevel 5 do:
+
+    mv /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S05openibd /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S11openibd
+
+
+Some MPIs require the node that initiated the RDMA connection to send
+the first RDMA message.  Enable this feature by adding the following 
+to /etc/modprobe.conf:
+
+    options iw_nes send_first=1
+
+
+For Intel MPI, iw_nes currently does not support dynamic connection 
+establishment feature.  Turn it off by setting/exporting the 
+I_MPI_USE_DYNAMIC_CONNECTIONS variable to 0:
+
+    export I_MPI_USE_DYNAMIC_CONNECTIONS=0



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