[Users] IPoIB on CentOS 6.5

Foraker, Jim foraker1 at llnl.gov
Wed Mar 18 14:08:17 PDT 2015


     Does ³known broken² mean Mehmet¹s case where IPoIB dies after an
opensm failover, or broken in other ways?  The only issue we¹ve seen with
IPoIB in RHEL 6.6 has been a bug with QIB hardware and kernel-based RDMA
(Lustre, SRP). Is there a RHEL bugzilla bug open on the issue(s)?

     Jim


On 3/18/15, 10:30 AM, "Peter Kjellström" <cap at nsc.liu.se> wrote:

>On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 15:54:02 +0100
>Mehmet Soysal <mehmet.soysal at kit.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> did you solved the problem ?
>> We have a similar issue since a upgrade to RHEL 6.5 or higher.
>> 
>> On our nodes ipoib is not working any longer after a opensm fail over
>> occurs.
>
>Actually IPoIB is known broken in rhel6 (6.5 zstream 431-x, x > 37 and
>for 6.6 all released -504). Redhat knows this and is working on a fix
>(there may be a candidate fix kernel to request). Meanwhile we've
>rebuilt latest -504 with the ipoib from 6.5 (which works fine for us).
>
>If you're interested in our -504 pkgs with old/working ipoib contact me
>offlist.
>
>Since last week you also get the additional complication of the verbs
>CVE to take into account when picking a working setup...
>
>/Peter K
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