[ofa-general] Re: performance and Kernel support

[H. N. HARAKE]

But I have no problem using ofed version 1.1

Thanks

On 11-Sep-2007, at 14:55, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

>> 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.
>
> -- 
> MST