[ofa-general] Re: performance and Kernel support

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

> I am running OFED version 1.1 on sles 9 using kernel 2.6.5-7.283, I  
> tried to to create rpm with version 1.2.51
> but it fails with conflict error, the same situation with version  
> 1.2.5 and 1.2.0 (check below)
> 
> 
> /var/tmp/OFEDRPM/BUILD/ofa_kernel-1.2.5.1/kernel_addons/backport/ 
> 2.6.5_sles9_sp3/include/linux/slab.h:8: error: conflicting types for  
> `kzalloc'
> /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-7.283_lustre.1.4.9/include/linux/slab.h:98:  
> error: previous declaration of `kzalloc'
> /var/tmp/OFEDRPM/BUILD/ofa_kernel-1.2.5.1/drivers/infiniband/core/ 
> addr.c:67: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
> /var/tmp/OFEDRPM/BUILD/ofa_kernel-1.2.5.1/kernel_addons/backport/ 
> 2.6.5_sles9_sp3/include/linux/device.h:48: warning: `class_create'  
> defined but not used
> /var/tmp/OFEDRPM/BUILD/ofa_kernel-1.2.5.1/kernel_addons/backport/ 
> 2.6.5_sles9_sp3/include/linux/device.h:82: warning: `class_destroy'  
> defined but not used
> /var/tmp/OFEDRPM/BUILD/ofa_kernel-1.2.5.1/kernel_addons/backport/ 
> 2.6.5_sles9_sp3/include/linux/device.h:108: warning:  
> `class_device_create' defined but not used

It seems clear that you are running a heavily patched kernel
which is likely not supported by ofed, and not the vanilla sles9 sp3 one,
which is.

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MST