[ewg] OFED Updates
Vladimir Sokolovsky
vlad at dev.mellanox.co.il
Tue Aug 27 06:16:38 PDT 2013
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Shuichi Ihara" <sihara at ddn.com>
> To: "Rupert Dance" <rsdance at soft-forge.com>
> Cc: "<ofalab at iol.unh.edu>" <ofalab at iol.unh.edu>, "<ewg at lists.openfabrics.org>" <ewg at lists.openfabrics.org>,
> "<ofs at soft-forge.com>" <ofs at soft-forge.com>
> Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 5:54:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [ewg] OFED Updates
>
>
> Hi Rupert,
>
> This is what I asked you a couple of month ago, but I'm still really
> confused even on 3.5-2.
>
> _version and _release are defined in 3.5-1-RC1's compat-rdma.spec
> below.
> %{!?_version: %define _version 3.5}
> %{!?_release: %define _release OFED.3.5.1}
>
> But, with 3.5-2 today...
>
> %{!?_version: %define _version 3.5}
> %{!?_release: %define _release 1}
>
> Why _release number is 1 in OFED-3.5-2? it is wrong and it should be
> 2 shouldn't it?
> What is exactly correct "_release" number?
>
> Please advise. I just filed this on bugzilla, anyway.
>
> Thanks
> Ihara
>
Hi,
I fixed this issue in http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-3.5-2-daily/OFED-3.5-2-20130827-0545.tgz
Rupert,
Please update your build/compat-rdma/ofed_scripts git trees.
Regards,
Vladimir
> On Jun 27, 2013, at 5:02 PM, Shuichi Ihara <sihara at ddn.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Rupert,
> >
> > Thanks clarification on this.
> > My question was versioning for compiled compat-rdma RPMs below. The
> > version will be fixed and
> > changed with correct version in the next RC build?
> >
> >> compat-rdma-3.5-2.6.32_358.6.2.el6.x86_64.x86_64.rpm
> >> compat-rdma-devel-3.5-2.6.32_358.6.2.el6.x86_64.x86_64.rpm
> >
> > I can expect compat-rdma-3.5-1-2.6.xx_xxx, instead of
> > compat-rdma-3.5-2.6.xx_xxx, correct?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Ihara
> >
> > On Jun 27, 2013, at 4:16 AM, Rupert Dance <rsdance at soft-forge.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hello Ihara,
> >>
> >> I discussed this with Vlad before we did these builds and here was
> >> his
> >> reasoning for suggesting these changes:
> >>
> >> "We should change versioning from "3.5.x" to "3.5-x". Current
> >> versioning may
> >> be confusing as OFED-3.5.1/2 is not based on linux-3.5.1/2 but on
> >> linux-3.5."
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> Rupert
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Shuichi Ihara [mailto:sihara at ddn.com]
> >> Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 7:26 AM
> >> To: Rupert Dance
> >> Cc: <ewg at lists.openfabrics.org>; <ofalab at iol.unh.edu>;
> >> <ofs at soft-forge.com>
> >> Subject: Re: [ewg] OFED Updates
> >>
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I have an confusion a little bit.
> >>
> >>> · OFED 3.5-1 not OFED 3.5.1
> >>
> >> I built OFED-3.5-1-RC1.tgz against RHEL6.4 kernel and the compile
> >> was fine.
> >> However, the compiled compat-rdma and compat-rdma-devel rpms's
> >> version is
> >> still 3.5, not 3.5-1.
> >>
> >> compat-rdma-3.5-2.6.32_358.6.2.el6.x86_64.x86_64.rpm
> >> compat-rdma-devel-3.5-2.6.32_358.6.2.el6.x86_64.x86_64.rpm
> >>
> >> _version in compat-rdma.spec should be 3.5-1, instead of 3.5,
> >> shouldn't it?
> >>
> >> %{!?_version: %define _version 3.5}
> >> %{!?_release: %define _release OFED.3.5.1}
> >>
> >> Please advise.
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> Ihara
> >>
> >> On Jun 25, 2013, at 5:08 AM, Rupert Dance <rsdance at soft-forge.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Meeting minutes and notes from the OFA EWG Meeting held on
> >>> 6/24/2013
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Attendees
> >>>
> >>> · Steve Wise - Chelsio
> >>>
> >>> · Robert Woodruff - Intel
> >>>
> >>> · Tatyana Nikolova - Intel
> >>>
> >>> · Tom Elken - Intel
> >>>
> >>> · Rupert Dance - Software Forge
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Updates
> >>>
> >>> Vlad suggested via email that we name OFED 3.5 point releases
> >>> using a
> >>> hyphen rather than a dot release. His reasoning is that the EWG
> >>> is
> >>> working to insure that we stay synchronized with kernel.org and
> >>> there
> >>> is no such thing a 3.5.1 or 3.5.2 kernel. So the EWG "point"
> >>> releases
> >>> will follow thins
> >>> format:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> · OFED 3.5-1 not OFED 3.5.1
> >>>
> >>> · OFED 3.5-2 not OFED 3.5.2
> >>>
> >>> · etc
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> OFED Status
> >>>
> >>> OFED 3.5-1
> >>>
> >>> · OFED 3.5.1 RC1 released on 6/24/2013
> >>>
> >>> o This release is identical to OFED 3.5 except that it adds
> >>> support for
> >>> RHEL 6.4. There are no new packages.
> >>>
> >>> o
> >> http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-3.5-1/OFED-3.5-1-RC1.tgz
> >>>
> >>> · OFED 3.5.1 RC2
> >>>
> >>> o Tom Elken from Intel mentioned that they have found an issue
> >>> with the
> >>> Intel True Scale PSM package with RHEL 6.4. This affects both
> >>> RHEL 6.3
> >>> and RHEL 6.4. Tom wants to review the status and provide a fix
> >>> which
> >>> will be available for RC2. There is a current work around using
> >>> ZStream kernels
> >>>
> >>> o Pending the Intel fix - goal is July 15th
> >>>
> >>> · OFED 3.5.1 GA
> >>>
> >>> o After fixes have been applied in RC2 we will do a GA. Goal is
> >>> end of
> >>> July.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> OFED 3.5.2
> >>>
> >>> · OFED 3.5.2 Daily Build released on 6/24/2013
> >>>
> >>> o This release support RHEL 6.4
> >>>
> >>> o
> >>> http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-3.5-2-daily/OFED-3.5-2-
> >>> 201306
> >>> 24-0804.tgz
> >>>
> >>> o New packages added
> >>>
> >>> § dapl-2.0.37
> >>>
> >>> § libcxgb4-1.3.0
> >>>
> >>> § libibverbs-1.1.7
> >>>
> >>> § libmlx4-1.0.5
> >>>
> >>> § librdmacm-1.0.17
> >>>
> >>> § mstflint-3.0-0.5
> >>>
> >>> § opensm-3.3.16
> >>>
> >>> § perftest-2.0-0.50
> >>>
> >>> · OFED 3.5.2 RC1
> >>>
> >>> o Woody mentioned that SLES-11 SP3 is about to be released and
> >>> he would
> >>> like to include support for this OS. His team is already working
> >>> on an
> >>> update for their MIC OFED version so he will provide the patches
> >>> to do
> >>> this and we will include it in the OFED 3.5-2 Daily build before
> >>> we do an
> >> RC.
> >>>
> >>> o 2 weeks after Tom Elken, Steve Wise, Tatyana and others have
> >>> a chance
> >> to
> >>> review and communicate their plans with their teams.
> >>>
> >>> · OFED 3.5.2 GA - target is early August
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> OFED 3.11 or 3.12
> >>>
> >>> · Goal is to start work in August 2013 and RC in October
> >>> GA in
> >> time
> >>> for SC 2013
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Open Issues
> >>>
> >>> Mellanox has requested that Software Forge (SFI) take over the
> >>> maintenance of OFED and so we have been making a transition from
> >>> Vlad
> >>> being the maintainer to Rupert maintaining this project. Please
> >>> notify
> >>> me of any updated packages and issues that you discover during
> >>> testing. There are two addresses that may be used:
> >>>
> >>> · Rupert: rsdance at soft-forge.com
> >>>
> >>> · SFI OFA Team: ofs at soft-forge.com
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Thanks
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Rupert
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> <OFED-3.5-1-RC1_release_notes.txt><OFED-3.5-2_release_notes.txt>______
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