[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] Re: [GIT PULL] OFED 1.2: CM scaling fixes

[Vladimir Sokolovsky]

Sean Hefty wrote:
>> Sean, before applying this, please discuss the MRA timeout patch
>> on the general list with Ishai.
>>
>> Can you fix the patch instead of removing it?
>> It helps him work-around bugs in his SRP target.
>
> Currently the patch is broken and incorrectly sets the CM timeouts to 
> 21 ms, which causes failures on any (even small) scale-up testing.  
> The OFED 1.1 patch was more limited in scope and only affected MRA 
> timeouts, whereas, this patch affects all CM timeouts.  I thought the 
> SRP target issue was fixed with a firmware update, and I saw that 
> Ishai was re-working the timeout patch.  Until a fixed patch is ready, 
> I believe that we should remove this.
>
>> Please post what you did and the errors you get, and we'll try to help.
>
> I ran a command based on what you mentioned:
>
> env git_url=/home/shefty/src/ofed_1_2/ git_branch=ofed_1_2 
> CHECK_LOCAL=yes CHECK_KERNEL_ORG=yes 
> /home/vlad/scripts/build_ofa_kernel.sh
>
> The build for x686 works, but all other builds fail, so I removed the 
> CHECK_CROSS=yes option.  I get build errors related to the cxgb3 driver.
>
> - Sean
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Try now,
Cross compilation should work.

Regards,
Vladimir