[ewg] [ANNOUNCE] OFED-3.5 is available

Thu Feb 14 08:59:39 PST 2013

Hi,
OFED 3.5 is available.

The tarball is available on:
http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-3.5/OFED-3.5.tgz

To get BUILD_ID run ofed_info

Please report any issues in bugzilla https://bugs.openfabrics.org/ for OFED 3.5

OFED-3.5 Main Changes from OFED 1.5.4.1 and 1.5.4
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Based on linux-3.5 kernel
2. kernel-ib RPM renamed to compat-rdma
3. Removed MPI packages and tests
4. Removed SDP kernel module and libsdp, sdpnetstat
5. XRC is supported in kernel only

6. Removed support for the OSes:
    - RHEL 5.X
    - SLES 10 SPx
7. Updated packages:
    - libibverbs-1.1.6
    - librdmacm-1.0.16
    - ibacm-1.0.7
    - dapl-2.0.36
    - opensm-3.3.15
    - infiniband-diags-1.6.1
    - libibmad-1.3.9
    - libibumad-1.3.8
    - infinipath-psm-3.1-364.1140_open
    - libmlx4-1.0.4
    - mstflint-1.4-1.23.g5c2032a
    - perftest-2.0-0.27.g2edd80a
    - qperf-0.4.9

Regards,
Vladimir

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	    Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED)
	               Version 3.5
	               Release Notes
	               February 2013

===============================================================================
Table of Contents
===============================================================================
1. Overview, which includes:
	- OFED Distribution Rev 3.5 Contents
	- Supported Platforms and Operating Systems
	- Supported HCA and RNIC Adapter Cards and Firmware Versions
	- Tested Switch Platforms
	- Third party Test Packages
	- OFED sources
2. Change log
3. Known Issues

===============================================================================
1. Overview
===============================================================================
These are the release notes of OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED)
release 3.5. The OFED software package is composed of several software modules,
and is intended for use on a computer cluster constructed as an InfiniBand
Fabric, an iWARP Network or a RoCE Fabric.

Note: If you plan to upgrade the OFED package on your cluster, please upgrade
all of its nodes to this new version.

1.1 OFED 3.5 Contents
-----------------------
The OFED package contains the following components:
 - OpenFabrics core and ULPs:
	- IB HCA drivers (mthca, mlx4, qib, ehca)
	- iWARP RNIC driver (cxgb3, cxgb4, nes)
	- RoCE drivers (mlx4)
- ib core
	- Upper Layer Protocols: IPoIB, SRP Initiator and target, iSER
	  Initiator and target, RDS, uDAPL, qlgc_vnic and NFS-RDMA*.
 - OpenFabrics utilities:
	- OpenSM (OSM): InfiniBand Subnet Manager
	- Diagnostic tools
	- Performance tests
 - Extra packages:
	- infinipath-psm: Performance-Scaled Messaging API, an accelerated
	  interface to Intel(R) HCAs
 - Sources of all software modules (under conditions mentioned in the modules'
   LICENSE files)
 - Documentation

1.2 Supported Platforms and Operating Systems
---------------------------------------------
  o   CPU architectures:
	- x86_64
	- x86
	- ppc64

  o   Linux Operating Systems:
	- RedHat EL6.2 		2.6.32-220.el6
	- RedHat EL6.3 		2.6.32-279.el6
	- SLES11 SP2 		3.0.13-0.27-default
	- kernel.org		3.5    *

      * Minimal QA for these versions.

1.3 HCAs and RNICs Supported
----------------------------
This release supports IB HCAs by IBM, Intel and Mellanox Technologies, iWARP RNICs by Chelsio Communications and Intel and RoCE adapters by IBM and Mellanox.

InfiniBand Adapters
  o   IBM HCAs:
	- GX Dual-port SDR 4x IB HCA
	- GX Dual-port SDR 12x IB HCA
	- GX Dual-port DDR 4x IB HCA
	- GX Dual-port DDR 12x IB HCA

  o   Intel (formerly QLogic) HCAs:
	- Intel(R) True Scale DDR PCIe x8 and x16 HCAs
	- Intel(R) True Scale QDR PCIe x8 Gen2 HCAs

  o   Mellanox Technologies HCAs (SDR, DDR and QDR Modes are Supported):
- ConnectX(R) and ConnectX EN (fw-25408 Rev 2.9.1000)
	- ConnectX-2 (fw-ConnectX2 Rev 2.9.1000)
	- ConnectX-3 (fw-ConnectX3 Rev 2.11.0500) (FDR and FDR10 Modes are Supported)

	For official firmware versions please see:
	http://www.mellanox.com/content/pages.php?pg=firmware_download

iWARP Adapters
  o   Chelsio RNICs:
	- S310/S320 10GbE Storage Accelerators
	- R310/R320 10GbE iWARP Adapters
- T4 Based Adapters with the exception of the T420-SO-CR

  o   Intel RNICs:
	- NE020 10Gb iWARP Adapter

RoCE Adapters
 o   IBM
- IBM Flex System EN4132 2-port 10 GbE RoCE
- IBM EL27 PCIe LP 2-Port 10GbE RoCE SFP+ adapter
- IBM EC28 PCIe 2-Port 10GbE RoCE SFP+ adapter

  o   Mellanox
- ConnectX-2 EN (fw-ConnectX2 Rev 2.9.1200)
	- ConnectX-3 EN (fw-ConnectX3 Rev 2.11.0500)

1.4 Switches Supported
----------------------
This release was tested with switches and gateways provided by the following
companies:
InfiniBand Switches
  o   Flextronics
	- F-X430044
  o   Intel (formerly QLogic)
- 12200
  o   Mellanox
- IS-5030
- SX6025
- SX6036

iWARP Switches
  o   Fujitisu
- XG2000C 10Gb Ethernet Switch

RoCE Switches
  o   Arista
  o   BLADE Network Technologies (BNT)
  o   Mellanox
- SX1036
- SX1024
- SX1016

1.5 Third Party Packages
------------------------
The following third party packages have been tested with OFED 3.5:
- MVAPICH2 - 1.8
- Intel MPI - 4.1
- Open MPI - 1.6/1.6.1

1.6 OFED Sources
----------------
All sources are located under git://git.openfabrics.org/

Linux:
------
URL: git://git.openfabrics.org/compat-rdma/linux-3.5.git
Branch: for-ofed-3.5

- Linux kernel sub-tree that includes files relevant for the OFED project only.
  Based on v3.5. Used to shorten git clone time.
  Note: the regular Linux git tree can be used as well.

compat:
-------
URL: git://git.openfabrics.org/compat-rdma/compat.git
Branch: ofed

- Based on compat project (https://github.com/mcgrof/compat). The compat module
  provides functionality introduced in newer kernels to older kernels through a
  set of header files and exported symbols.
  See https://github.com/mcgrof/compat/wiki for details.
- Used to replace kernel_addons in the previous OFED kernel tree.

compat-rdma:
------------
URL: git://git.openfabrics.org/compat-rdma/compat-rdma.git
Branch: master

User level Sources are downloaded from http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/
as written in the BUILD_ID

The kernel sources are based on Linux 3.5 mainline kernel. Its patches
are included in the OFED sources directory.
For details see HOWTO.build_ofed.

The list of maintainers is available under:
http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/MAINTAINERS

===============================================================================
2. Change log
===============================================================================

OFED-3.5 Main Changes from OFED 1.5.4.1 and 1.5.4
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Based on linux-3.5 kernel
2. kernel-ib RPM renamed to compat-rdma
3. Removed MPI packages and tests
4. Removed SDP kernel module and libsdp, sdpnetstat
5. XRC is supported in kernel only

6. Removed support for the OSes:
   - RHEL 5.X
   - SLES 10 SPx
7. Updated packages:
   - libibverbs-1.1.6
   - librdmacm-1.0.16
   - ibacm-1.0.7
   - dapl-2.0.36
   - opensm-3.3.15
   - infiniband-diags-1.6.1
   - libibmad-1.3.9
   - libibumad-1.3.8
   - infinipath-psm-3.1-364.1140_open
   - libmlx4-1.0.4
   - mstflint-1.4-1.23.g5c2032a
   - perftest-2.0-0.27.g2edd80a
   - qperf-0.4.9

===============================================================================
3. Known Issues
===============================================================================
The following is a list of general limitations and known issues of the various
components of the OFED 3.5-rc2 release.

1. When upgrading from an earlier OFED version, the installation script does
   not stop the earlier OFED version prior to uninstalling it.
   Workaround: Stop the old OFED stack (/etc/init.d/openibd stop) before
   upgrading to OFED 3.5 or reboot the server after OFED installation.
2. Memory registration by the user is limited according to administrator
   setting. See "Pinning (Locking) User Memory Pages" in OFED_tips.txt for
   system configuration.
3. Fork support from kernel 2.6.12 and above is available provided
   that applications do not use threads. fork() is supported as long as the
   parent process does not run before the child exits or calls exec().
   The former can be achieved by calling wait(childpid), and the latter can be
   achieved by application specific means.  The Posix system() call is
   supported.
4. The qib driver is supported only on 64-bit platforms.
5. IPoIB: brctl utilities do not work on IPoIB interfaces. The reason for that
   is that these utilities support devices of type Ethernet only.
6. In case uninstall is failing, check the error log and remove
   the remaining RPMs manually using 'rpm -e <rpms list>'.
7. On SLES11.x, set allow_unsupported_modules parameter to 1 in file:
    /etc/modprobe.d/unsupported-modules. Without this the modules will not
    load.
8. RDS is supported only on kernel.org 3.5 and not on any distro OS.

Note: See the release notes of each component for additional issues.