[openib-general] RHEL5 and OFED ...

[Or Gerlitz]

Shirley Ma wrote:
> openib-general-bounces at openib.org wrote on 10/16/2006 01:50:49 PM:
>  > On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 15:25 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>  > > Quoting r. Maestas, Christopher Daniel <cdmaest at sandia.gov>:
>  > > > So I would think rhel5 would have at least that or greater.  When I
>  > > > compiled rpms for 1.1rc7 it generated:
>  > > > ---
>  > > > # ls libibverbs-*
>  > > > libibverbs-1.0.4-0.x86_64.rpm       
>  libibverbs-utils-1.0.4-0.x86_64.rpm
>  > > > libibverbs-devel-1.0.4-0.x86_64.rpm
>  > >
>  > > Dough, would it be possible to update this + libmthca?
>  >
>  > Possibly.  What's the justification?  What's in 1.0.4 that is the
>  > primary reason for wanting to update from 1.0.3?

> I am not sure whether this already has an answer.
> The justification is madvise(..., MADV_DONTFORK) is used to make fork() 
> work for verbs consumers in the recent packages. I hope same patch will 
> be in libehca.

Just to crlarify: libibverbs-1.X does not include the 
madvise(...,MADV_DONTFORK) fork() support, it was integrated into 
libibverbs1.1 which is not released yet.

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