[ewg] [PATCH] docs: update ehca release notes for OFED-1.5

Alexander Schmidt alexs at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Dec 9 13:01:30 PST 2009


Hi Vlad,

Signed-off-by: Alexander Schmidt <alexs at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 ehca_release_notes.txt |   33 +++++++++++++++++----------------
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

--- docs.git.orig/ehca_release_notes.txt
+++ docs.git/ehca_release_notes.txt
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 
              Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED)
-                    ehca in OFED 1.4.1 Release Notes
+                    ehca in OFED 1.5 Release Notes
 
-                               May 2009
+                               December 2009
 
 
 Overview
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ whereby <parameter> is one of the follow
 - scaling_code    scaling code (0: disable (default), 1: enable)
 - open_aqp1       Open AQP1 on startup (default: no) (bool)
 - hw_level        Hardware level (0: autosensing (default), 0x10..0x14: eHCA, 0x20..0x23: eHCA2) (int)
-- nr_ports        number of connected ports (-1: autodetect, 1: port one only, 2: two ports (default) (int)
+- nr_ports        number of connected ports (-1: autodetect (default), 1: port one only, 2: two ports) (int)
 - use_hp_mr       Use high performance MRs (default: no) (bool)
 - poll_all_eqs    Poll all event queues periodically (default: yes) (bool)
 - static_rate     Set permanent static rate (default: no static rate) (int)
@@ -38,7 +38,14 @@ whereby <parameter> is one of the follow
 
 New Features
 ------------
-- none
+- DMEM toleration
+- Port autodetection set to default
+
+Fixed Bugs ofed-1.5
+---------------------
+- SRQ overflow prevention
+- Performance improvements for QP creation
+- MAD redirection fix
 
 Fixed Bugs ofed-1.4.1
 ---------------------
@@ -81,23 +88,17 @@ Fixed Bugs ofed-1.3
 
 Available backports
 -------------------
-- RedHat EL5 up2: 2.6.18-92.ELsmp
 - RedHat EL5 up3: 2.6.18-128.ELsmp
+- RedHat EL5 up4: 2.6.18-164.ELsmp
 - SLES11: 2.6.27.19-5.1-smp
-- SLES10SP1: 2.6.16-53-0.16-smp
 - SLES10SP2: 2.6.16-60
-- kernel.org: 2.6.24-27
+- SLES10SP3: 2.6.16.60-0.54.5
+- kernel.org: 2.6.27-30
 
 Known Issues
 ------------
-1. The device driver normally uses both ports. For using just one port it is
-strongly recommended to set option nr_ports=-1 to enable autodetect mode:
-   modprobe ib_ehca nr_ports=-1
-
-2. Furthermore the port(s) needs to be connected to an active switch port while
+1. The port(s) needs to be connected to an active switch port while
 loading the ehca device driver.
 
-3. Dynamic memory operations are not supported with ehca
-
-4. Allocating a large number of queue pairs might be time consuming. This will
-be fixed in next OFED release.
+2. Dynamic memory operations are tolerated by ehca, but are prevented by
+the driver while it is loaded.



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