[Users] FW: Building OFA OFED-3.18-2 on Redhat 6.8
Amiya Maji
amaji at purdue.edu
Mon Dec 5 17:33:20 PST 2016
Rupert,
Thanks again for your response and the document!
Unfortunately, our current config management is customized for RHEL-6
and would be difficult to migrate to RHEL-7 soon. I shall try the 4.8
release for our future clusters.
Best regards,
Amiya
On 12/03/2016 01:22 PM, Rupert Dance wrote:
>
> Amiya,
>
> 1.To my knowledge, there are no immediate plans to support 6.8 in
> either OFED 3.18-x or OFED 4.8. But I will bring this up in the EWG
> Meeting on 12/5/2016.
>
> 2.OFED 4.8 is in daily build status which means that we are working on
> this project and we are still some time away from producing a Release
> Candidate (RC) with full support for the listed distros and user
> packages. There are still some backports that have not been completed
> for RHEL 7.2 for example. So if you want to experiment with either
> 3.18-2 or 4.8, your best bet is to setup a test system with one of the
> Distros that we currently support. Our goal for 4.8 is to get
> everything working for the supported Distros. After that work is
> complete we would begin adding support for RHEL 6.8 or RHEL 7.3 for
> example assuming we agree that 6.8 is worth the effort. So even if we
> decide to add support, my guess is that it will not be until sometime
> in Q1 2017.
>
> I have added a short little document that may help you with the OFED
> 4.8 daily build if you want to experiment with 7.2.
>
> Thanks and have fun,
>
> Rupert
>
> *From:*Amiya Maji [mailto:amaji at purdue.edu]
> *Sent:* Friday, December 02, 2016 5:35 PM
> *To:* Rupert Dance; users at lists.openfabrics.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Users] Building OFA OFED-3.18-2 on Redhat 6.8
>
> Rupert/Aleksandr,
>
> Thank you very much for the response!
>
> I did notice the release notes earlier and was hoping that someone had
> a patch to make things work. I think it would benefit several in the
> community if OFED supports latest RHEL-6.x release.
>
> Is there any plan to support RHEL-6.8 in OFED-4.8 release? I tried to
> build the daily version but that didn't work eithergin-left:0in;
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> Rupert/Aleksandr,
>
> Thank you very much for the response!
>
> I did notice the release notes earlier and was hoping that someone had
> a patch to make things work. I think it would benefit several in the
> community if OFED supports latest RHEL-6.x release.
>
> Is there any plan to support RHEL-6.8 in OFED-4.8 release? I tried to
> build the daily version but that didn't work either.
>
> Regards,
>
> Amiya.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> *From:*Rupert Dance <rsdance at soft-forge.com>
> <mailto:rsdance at soft-forge.com>
> *Sent:* Monday, November 14, 2016 4:17:42 PM
> *To:* Aleksandr.Nepomnyashchiy at tdameritrade.com
> <mailto:Aleksandr.Nepomnyashchiy at tdameritrade.com>; Amiya K Maji;
> users at lists.openfabrics.org <mailto:users at lists.openfabrics.org>
> *Subject:* RE: [Users] Building OFA OFED-3.18-2 on Redhat 6.8
>
> Hi,
>
> This is probably because 3.18-2 did not have backports for RHEL 6.8
> since 3.18-2 was released in July (see attached release notes). I will
> bring this issue up in the next EWG meeting to see if we want to
> consider support for 6.8 with another 3.18-xx release.
>
> o Linux Operating Systems:
> - RedHat EL6.5 2.6.32-431.el6
> - RedHat EL6.6 2.6.32-504.el6
> - RedHat EL6.7 2.6.32-573.el6
> - RedHat EL7.0 3.10.0-123.el7
> - RedHat EL7.1 3.10.0-229.el7
> - RedHat EL7.2 3.10.0-327.el7
> - SLES11 SP3 3.0.76-0.9.1
> - SLES11 SP4 3.0.101-63
> - SLES12 3.12.28-4
> - SLES12.1 3.12.49-11.1
> - kernel.org 3.18 *
>
> Thanks
>
> Rupert
>
> From: Users [mailto:users-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org] On Behalf Of
> Aleksandr.Nepomnyashchiy at tdameritrade.com
> <mailto:Aleksandr.Nepomnyashchiy at tdameritrade.com>
> Sent: Monday, November 14, 2016 3:57 PM
> To: amaji at purdue.edu <mailto:amaji at purdue.edu>;
> users at lists.openfabrics.org <mailto:users at lists.openfabrics.org>
> Subject: Re: [Users] Building OFA OFED-3.18-2 on Redhat 6.8
>
> Amiya,
> I had the same issue – errors while building OFED-3.18-2 on REHL 6.8.
> I switched to OFED-3.18-2 on RHEL 6.7 and was able to build without
> any issues.
>
>
> I would be curious to know if you manage to build OFED-3.18-2 on REHL
> 6.8.
>
> Thank you,
> Aleksandr Nepomnyashchiy
>
> From: Users [mailto:users-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org] On Behalf Of
> Amiya K Maji
> Sent: Monday, November 14, 2016 3:46 PM
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> "mailto:users at lists.openfabrics.org"users at lists.openfabrics.org
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> Subject: [Users] Building OFA OFED-3.18-2 on Redhat 6.8
>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to build OFA OFED drivers on Redhat-6.8 (Kernel
> 2.6.32.642) but encountering various errors pasted below. I have tried
> building both "--with-xeon-phi" and without -- but faced same errors.
>
>
> If anyone has experience building OFED on Kernel-2.6.32.642, I would
> appreciate some guidance. If it is not compatible, can someone suggest
> me a compatible OFED driver?
>
>
> Error messages:
> ---------------------
> include/linux/percpu.h:713: error: 'printk_func_t' undeclared here
> (not in a function)
> include/linux/percpu.h:713: warning: type defaults to 'int' in
> declaration of 'per_cpu__printk_func'
> --
> include/linux/skbuff.h: In function 'skb_probe_transport_header':
> include/linux/skbuff.h:1408: error: 'struct flow_keys' has no member
> named 'thoff'
>
> Best regards,
> AM
>
> --
> -----
> Amiya K Maji, Ph.D.
> Scientific Applications Analyst
> Research Computing, ITaP
> Purdue University
--
-----
Amiya K Maji, Ph.D.
Scientific Applications Analyst
Research Computing, ITaP
Purdue University
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