[ewg] [PATCH ofed-1.4 release notes] cxgb3: Release note updates for ofed-1.4
Steve Wise
swise at opengridcomputing.com
Sat Nov 15 09:01:23 PST 2008
From: Steve Wise <swise at opengridcomputing.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Wise <swise at opengridcomputing.com>
---
cxgb3_release_notes.txt | 29 +++++++++++++++++++----------
1 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/cxgb3_release_notes.txt b/cxgb3_release_notes.txt
index ce0004d..d9080ad 100644
--- a/cxgb3_release_notes.txt
+++ b/cxgb3_release_notes.txt
@@ -1,31 +1,40 @@
Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED)
CHELSIO T3 RNIC RELEASE NOTES
- June 2008
+ November 2008
The iw_cxgb3 and cxgb3 modules provide RDMA and NIC support for the
Chelsio S310/320 and R310/320 series adapters. Make sure you choose the
'cxgb3' and 'libcxgb3' options when generating your ofed-1.4 rpms.
+============================================
+New for ofed-1.4
+============================================
+
+- 7.0 Firmware support. See below for more information on updating
+your RNIC to the latest firmware.
+
+- Memory Managment Extensions including:
+ - Fast register memory regions
+ - Invalidate local memory region work request
+ - Zero stag support via the local DMA lkey field
+ - Read with invalidate local stag work request
+
+- RDS bcopy mode enabled for iWARP devices
============================================
-New enhancements for OFED-1.4:
+Recent Enhancements
============================================
- Various MPI libraries are enabled via a new iw_cxgb3 module option
called peer2peer. When loading iw_cxgb3, set peer2peer=1 to enable Intel
MPI version 3.1.038, HP MPI version 2.02.05.01, OpenMPI (will be released
-with OMPI-3.1), and Scali MPI (will be available in version 3.13.7).
+with OpenMPI-1.3), and Scali MPI (will be available in version 3.13.7).
This option must be set on all systems in your cluster. See more info
below on running these MPIs. NOTE: None of these MPIs are included in
the ofed-1.4 release. Contact the specific vendors for obtaining the
MPI code. Open MPI can be pulled from www.open-mpi.org.
-- New 6.0 firmware required. Download this firmware from
-service.chelsio.com and put the t3fw-6.0.0.bin file in /lib/firmware.
-Then reload the cxgb3 module and reconfigure the interface to flash this
-new firmware.
-
- Large memory registration. User applications can now register > 30MB
memory regions.
@@ -108,7 +117,7 @@ Contact Scali for obtaining their MPI with DAPL support.
OpenMPI:
=============
-OpenMPI iWARP support is only available in version 1.3 or greater.
+OpenMPI iWARP support is only available in OpenMPI version 1.3 or greater.
Open MPI will work without any specific configuration via the openib btl.
Users wishing to performance tune the configurable options may wish to
@@ -171,7 +180,7 @@ msi - whether to use MSI or MSI-X. Default is 2.
Updating Firmware:
============================================
-This release requires firmware version 5.x, and Protocol SRAM version
+This release requires firmware version 7.x, and Protocol SRAM version
1.1.x. This firmware can be downloaded from http://service.chelsio.com.
If your distro/kernel supports firmware loading, you can place the
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