[openib-general] [openfabrics-ewg] RHEL5 and OFED ...

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Quoting r. Doug Ledford <dledford at redhat.com>:
> Subject: Re: [openfabrics-ewg] RHEL5 and OFED ...
> 
> On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 07:09 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > Quoting r. Doug Ledford <dledford at redhat.com>:
> > > Subject: Re: [openfabrics-ewg] RHEL5 and OFED ...
> > > 
> > > On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 09:29 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > > Quoting r. Doug Ledford <dledford at redhat.com>:
> > > > > > >From our dicussion, it seems we should be able to just push the
> > > > > > small number of missing bits into RHEL5 directly. That would be
> > > > > > nicer of course.
> > > > > 
> > > > > It depends.  If there's lots of individual changes, it might be easier
> > > > > to push the OFED 1.1 change.  But, that depends on when the final OFED
> > > > > 1.1 comes out and how much it varies from the existing RPMs.
> > > > 
> > > > OFED is in deep freeze, so you can already look at it to estimate the
> > > > amount of changes against 2.6.18.  Could you look at the diff please so
> > > > that I know whether it's worth it to invest in building the minimal
> > > > patch set for pushing into RHEL5, or whether you'll push OFED 1.1 into
> > > > RHEL kernel as is?
> > > 
> > > Yeah, I'll look over the diff today.
> > 
> > How does it look?
> 
> OK.  The total diffstat is large enough that it's going to be a very
> hard sell to include.  I'll try, but it'll be hard.

Actually, the only large patch by far is the ipath-fixes.patch:

Some of these patches are already in 2.6.18.

wc -l *.patch

     39 cm_add_mra_timeout_limit.patch
     72 cma_established1.patch
     18 cma_increase_max_cm_retries.patch
     24 cma_list_init.patch
     20 cma_mem_leak.patch
     38 cma_race_fix.patch
     33 cma_tavor_quirk.patch
     18 cm_cleanup_timewait.patch
     21 ib_sa_names.patch
  11273 ipath-fixes.patch
    194 ipath-limit-packets-sent-without-ack.patch
    169 ipath-memcpy_cachebypass.patch
     13 ipath-x86_64.patch
     44 ipoib_issue3.patch
     47 ipoib_mcast_join_mask.patch
     28 ipoib_mcast_restart.patch
     74 ipoib_selector_updated.patch
     66 ishai_srp_attributes.patch
     57 ishai_srp_remove_reconnect.patch
     71 ishai_srp_wa_post_send.patch
     20 lockdep_header.patch
     18 mthca_av_statrate.patch
    314 mthca_catas_reset.patch
     18 mthca_mad_traps.patch
     18 mthca_query_port.patch
     38 mthca_query_qp_portnum.patch
     17 mthca_query_qp_statrate_bits.patch
     29 mthca_use_uar2.patch
     96 robert-ipath-diagpkt-init-fixup.patch
     39 sdp_credits_by_seq.patch
     52 sdp_post_credits.patch
    157 sean_cma_establish.patch
    104 sean_cma_hotplug.patch
     17 sean_cma_typo_fix.patch
     68 sean_cm_drep_on_not_found.patch
    101 sean_cm_randomize_psn.patch
    199 sean_cm_unload_crash.patch
     83 srp_1_recreate_at_reconnect.patch
    112 srp_2_use_multiple_initiator_ports.patch
    121 svnehca_0015_1.patch
     12 svnehca_0015_2.patch

and despite the name it is actually adding a new features -
such as mmap of kernel buffers insto userspace - not purely a bugfix.
So, how about pushing all the rest for starters?


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