[nfs-rdma-devel] [ofa-general] Status of NFS-RDMA ?

James Lentini jlentini at netapp.com
Mon Feb 4 14:39:25 PST 2008



On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Pawel Dziekonski wrote:

> On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 at 11:09:43AM -0500, James Lentini wrote:
> 
> > I'm refering to the OFED 1.2 NFS/RDMA package you cited above:
> > 
> > http://www.mellanox.com/downloads/NFSoRDMA/OFED-1.2-NFS-RDMA.gz, so
> > 
> > You can NOT install that on Tom Tucker's kernel. That is an old 
> > version of the NFS/RDMA software that will conflict with the latest 
> > code.
> >
> > If the OFED version you want to use is supported on Tom Tucker's 
> > kernel (2.6.24-rc6), there should be no problem using OFED. The OFED 
> > 1.2 NFS/RDMA release is a different story.
> 
> OK!
> 
> I do not insist on this version of OFED. I was trying to use it 
> because of lack of info which OFED is compatible with Tom's tree and 
> OFED-1.2-NFS-RDMA.gz has RDMA in name. ;)
>
> I want to use ANY version of OFED that would allow me to use 
> nfs/rdma TOGETHER with IPoIB, MPIoIB and SDP - please suggest which 
> version it would be.
> 
> I really appreciate your help! Pawel

I don't use OFED, but I'll share with you what I know. OFED 1.3 is 
based on 2.6.24, which is the same kernel Tom Tucker's git tree is 
based on. I would assume the two are compatible, but I have not tried 
it.

Do you have NFS/RDMA working at this point?



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