Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED)
- Version 3.12 Release Notes
- May 2014
+ Version 3.12-1 Release Notes
+ August 2014
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Table of Contents
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1. Overview, which includes:
- - OFED Distribution Rev 3.12 Contents
+ - OFED Distribution Rev 3.12-1 Contents
- Supported Platforms and Operating Systems
- Supported HCA and RNIC Adapter Cards and Firmware Versions
- Tested Switch Platforms
1. Overview
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These are the release notes of OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED)
-release 3.12. The OFED software package is composed of several software modules,
+release 3.12-1. The OFED software package is composed of several software modules,
and is intended for use on a computer cluster constructed as an InfiniBand
Fabric, an iWARP Network or a RoCE Fabric.
all of its nodes to this new version.
-1.1 OFED 3.12 Contents
+1.1 OFED 3.12-1 Contents
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The OFED package contains the following components:
- OpenFabrics core and ULPs:
o Linux Operating Systems:
- RedHat EL6.4 2.6.32-358.el6
- RedHat EL6.5 2.6.32-431.el6
+ - RedHat EL7.0 3.10.0-123.4.4
- SLES11 SP3 3.0.76-0.9.1
- kernel.org 3.12 *
1.5 Third Party Packages
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-The following third party packages have been tested with OFED 3.12:
+The following third party packages have been tested with OFED 3.12-1:
- Open MPI - 1.8
- Intel MPI 4.1.3
- MVAPICH2
Linux:
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-URL: git://git.openfabrics.org/compat-rdma/linux-3.12.git
+URL: git://git.openfabrics.org/compat-rdma/linux-3.12-1.git
Branch: master
- Linux kernel sub-tree that includes files relevant for the OFED project only.
- Based on v3.12. Used to shorten git clone time.
+ Based on v3.12-1. Used to shorten git clone time.
Note: the regular Linux git tree can be used as well.
compat:
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2. Change log
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-OFED-3.12-rc3 Main Changes from OFED 3.12-rc2
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-1. Updated packages:
- - perftest-2.2-0.17
-2. Bugs solved
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-OFED-3.12-rc2 Main Changes from OFED 3.12-rc1
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-1. Updated packages:
- - dapl-2.0.42
- - ibutils-1.5.7-0.2.gbd7e502.tar.gz
- - libcxgb4-1.3.3
- - mstflint-3.6.0-1.8
- - perftest-2.2-0.16.g8406133.tar.gz
-
-OFED-3.12-rc1 Main Changes from OFED 3.5-2
+OFED-3.12-1-rc1 Main Changes from OFED 3.12 GA
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1. Add support for the OSes
- - RedHat EL6.5
-2. New drivers available
- - ocrdma
- - libocrdma-1.0.2
- - mlx5
- - libmlx5-1.0.1
-3. Updated packages:
- - dapl-2.0.40
- - ibsim-0.6
- - infiniband-diags-1.6.4
- - infinipath-psm-3.2-2_ga8c3e3e_open
- - libcxgb4-1.3.2
- - libibmad-1.3.11
- - libibumad-1.3.9
- - libipathverbs-1.2.1
- - libnes-1.1.4
- - librdmacm-1.0.18
- - mstflint-3.5.0
- - opensm-3.3.17
- - perftest-2.0-0.80.g54c73c6
- - srptools-1.0.2
+ - RedHat EL7.0
+2. Updated packages:
+ - dapl-2.1.1
+ - ibacm-1.0.9
+ - libcxgb4-1.3.5
+ - libibverbs-1.1.8
+ - libmlx4-1.0.6
+ - libocrdma-1.0.3
+ - librdmacm-1.0.19.1
+ - mstflint-3.7.0-1.17
+ - opensm-3.3.18
+ - perftest-2.3-0.12
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3. Known Issues
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The following is a list of general limitations and known issues of the various
-components of the OFED 3.12-rc2 release.
+components of the OFED 3.12-1 release.
01. When upgrading from an earlier OFED version, the installation script does
not stop the earlier OFED version prior to uninstalling it.
Workaround: Stop the old OFED stack (/etc/init.d/openibd stop) before
- upgrading to OFED 3.12 or reboot the server after OFED installation.
+ upgrading to OFED 3.12-1 or reboot the server after OFED installation.
02. Memory registration by the user is limited according to administrator
setting. See "Pinning (Locking) User Memory Pages" in OFED_tips.txt for
system configuration.
/etc/modprobe.d/unsupported-modules. Without this the modules will not
load.
08. RDS is supported only on kernel.org 3.5 and not on any distro OS.
-09. There is an issue with NFSoRDMA when running on Power PC. This will be
- resolved in OFED 3.12-1 - see Bug 2449
-10. There are known issues with iWARP using Chelsio adapters which will be
- resolved in OFED 3.12-1 See Bugs 2482, 2485 and 2487
-11. There are some issues with NFSoRDMA and there are some pending patches on kernel.org. These will be
- resolved in OFED 3.12-1 - see Bugw 2489 and 2490
-12. Newer SLES or RHEL patch kernels that are updates to the original kernel that is included in the
+09. Newer SLES or RHEL patch kernels that are updates to the original kernel that is included in the
original SLES or RHEL distibutions may not work with OFED-3.12. The list of kernels that are supported are listed in
section 1.2.