[ewg] OFED 3.12 SRP client compatibility for RHEL 6.5

[Vladimir Sokolovsky]

----- Original Message -----

> From: "Bart Van Assche" <bvanassche at acm.org>
> To: "Amir Hanania" <amir.hanania at intel.com>,
> ewg at lists.openfabrics.org
> Sent: Friday, December 6, 2013 9:02:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [ewg] OFED 3.12 SRP client compatibility for RHEL 6.5

> On 12/06/13 19:26, Hanania, Amir wrote:
> > I had a need to run ofed 3.12 SRP client on _RHEL 6.5_.
> >
> > So, I fixed:
> > 1. Compilation issue when SRP option is set. (scsi_target_unblock)
> > 2. Crashing issue when I first tried to use it. (srp_queuecommand)
> >
> > It is now running on my RHEL 6.5 system. _Please see attached
> > patch_.
> >
> > My question is what is the way to make this patch part of the
> > official
> > OFED-3.12 release ?

> Please have a look at a similar patch that is present in OFED 3.5. It
> is
> much more elaborate than this patch and e.g. enables lockless
> queueing,
> which improves performance significantly. See also the patch called
> compat-rdma-3.5/patches/0025-ib_srp-Backport-to-older-kernels.patch
> in
> SRPMS/compat-rdma-3.5-OFED.3.5.src.rpm in OFED-3.5.tgz.

> The same patch can also be found here:
> http://git.openfabrics.org/git?p=compat-rdma/compat-rdma.git;a=tree;f=patches;hb=ofed_3_5.

> Bart.

Hi Bart, 
I adopted 0025-ib_srp-Backport-to-older-kernels.patch from OFED-3.5 into compat-rdma (master) including changes Amir sent to me. 
Please try http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-3.12-daily/OFED-3.12-20131209-0842.tgz 

Regards, 
Vladimir 
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