[openib-general] RHEL4ASU3 question

[Bob Woodruff]

Roger wrote,
>Does anyone have any suggestions on exactly how to proceed, here
>are the options as I see it:

>Use what RHEL4U3 has.
>Replace RHEL4U3 kernel with newest released kernel.org kernel and
>        compile the OpenIB userspace tools for it.

I have tested what is on the RedHat EL4.0 U3 with Intel MPI and it
worked ok, so RedHat EL4.0 U3 has all of the userspace libraries needed
to run MVAPICH, although I have not tried it, but I suspect it will work.
There is one issue that I ran into with the stock RedHat EL4 U3 release
and that is with the new Mellenox DDR card I had some problems with rdma,
using uDAPL and suspect you would see the same issues with MVAPICH with
those cards.
The SDR cards seem to work fine with the code that is on the RedHat CD.


Using a kernel.org kernel is also an option or if you want/need to use the
RedHat
EL4.0 kernel, but want a later version of the openib code, you can try my
backport patches and/or
test RPMs, https://openib.org/svn/gen2/branches/backport-to-2.6.9/

woody