Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED)
- Version 3.5-2 RC2 Release Notes
- October 2013
-
+ Version 3.5-2 RC3 Release Notes
+ December 2013
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Table of Contents
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1. Overview, which includes:
- - OFED Distribution Rev 3.5-2 RC2 Contents
+ - OFED Distribution Rev 3.5-2 RC3 Contents
- Supported Platforms and Operating Systems
- Supported HCA and RNIC Adapter Cards and Firmware Versions
- Tested Switch Platforms
2. Change log
3. Known Issues
-
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1. Overview
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These are the release notes of OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED)
-release 3.5-2 RC2. The OFED software package is composed of several software modules,
+release 3.5-2 RC3. 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 3.5-2 RC2 Contents
+1.1 OFED 3.5-3 RC2 Contents
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The OFED package contains the following components:
- OpenFabrics core and ULPs:
- SX6036
iWARP Switches
- o Fujitisu
+ o Fujitsu
- XG2000C 10Gb Ethernet Switch
RoCE Switches
1.5 Third Party Packages
------------------------
-The following third party packages have been tested with OFED 3.5-2 RC2:
+The following third party packages have been tested with OFED 3.5-2 RC3:
- Open MPI - 1.6.5
1.6 OFED Sources
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2. Change log
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-OFED-3.5-2 RC2 Main Changes from OFED 3.5-2 RC1
+OFED-3.5-2 RC3 Main Changes from OFED 3.5-2 RC2
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1. Updated packages:
- - dapl-2.0.39
- - infinipath-psm-3.1-4
- - libcxgb4-1.3.1
-2. install.pl: Enable nfsrdma on RHEL6.4
- - if ($kernel =~ m/^3\.5/ or $DISTRO =~ /SLES11.2|RHEL6.[234]/)
+ - librdmacm-1.0.17.1
+ - perftest-2.0-0.63.g5bb5fe6.tar.gz
OFED-3.5-2 Main Changes from OFED 3.5-1 and OFED 3.5
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1. Add support for the OSes
- RedHat EL6.4
- SLES11 SP3
-2. Removed pacckage
+2. Removed packages
- compat-dapl
3. Updated packages:
- - dapl-2.0.38
+ - dapl-2.0.39
- ibacm-1.0.8
- infiniband-diags-1.6.2
- - libcxgb4-1.3.0
+ - infinipath-psm-3.1-4
+ - libcxgb4-1.3.1
- libibmad-1.3.10
- libibverbs-1.1.7
- libmlx4-1.0.5
- libmthca-1.0.6
- - librdmacm-1.0.17
+ - librdmacm-1.0.17.1
- mstflint-3.0-0.6
- opensm-3.3.16
- perftest-2.0-0.58
+New Patches
+1. 0001-mlx4_core-Roll-back-round-robin-bitmap-allocation-co.patch
+ See Bug 2452
+
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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 3.5-2 release.
-1. 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 3.5 or reboot the server after OFED installation.
-2. Memory registration by the user is limited according to administrator
- setting. See "Pinning (Locking) User Memory Pages" in OFED_tips.txt for
- system configuration.
-3. Fork support from kernel 2.6.12 and above is available provided
- that applications do not use threads. fork() is supported as long as the
- parent process does not run before the child exits or calls exec().
- The former can be achieved by calling wait(childpid), and the latter can be
- achieved by application specific means. The Posix system() call is
- supported.
-4. The qib driver is supported only on 64-bit platforms.
-5. IPoIB: brctl utilities do not work on IPoIB interfaces. The reason for that
- is that these utilities support devices of type Ethernet only.
-6. In case uninstall is failing, check the error log and remove
- the remaining RPMs manually using 'rpm -e <rpms list>'.
-7. On SLES11.x, set allow_unsupported_modules parameter to 1 in file:
+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 3.5 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.
+03. Fork support from kernel 2.6.12 and above is available provided
+ that applications do not use threads. fork() is supported as long as the
+ parent process does not run before the child exits or calls exec().
+ The former can be achieved by calling wait(childpid), and the latter can be
+ achieved by application specific means. The Posix system() call is
+ supported.
+04. The qib driver is supported only on 64-bit platforms.
+05. IPoIB: brctl utilities do not work on IPoIB interfaces. The reason for that
+ is that these utilities support devices of type Ethernet only.
+06. In case uninstall is failing, check the error log and remove
+ the remaining RPMs manually using 'rpm -e <rpms list>'.
+07. On SLES11.x, set allow_unsupported_modules parameter to 1 in file:
/etc/modprobe.d/unsupported-modules. Without this the modules will not
load.
-8. RDS is supported only on kernel.org 3.5 and not on any distro OS.
+08. RDS is supported only on kernel.org 3.5 and not on any distro OS.
+09. RHEL 6.5 is not supported in 3.5-2 but will be supported in the next OFED
+ version which is OFED 3.12
+10. Mellanox ConnectIB HCAs are not supported in OFED 3.5-2. See OFED 3.12
+11. There are known issues with iWARP using Chelsio adapters which will be
+ resolved in OFED 3.12. See Bugs 2402, 2441 and 2445
+12. There is an issue with dapl which will be resolved in the next release
+ dapl 2.0.40 which will be included in OFED 3.12 - see Bug 2448
+13. There is an issue with PSM when compiling with gcc >= 4.6. This will be
+ resolved in OFED 3.12 - see Bug 2430
+14. There is an issue with NFSoRDMA when running on Power PC. This will be
+ resolved in OFED 3.12 - see Bug 2449
Note: See the release notes of each component for additional issues.
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