From 22f50ef8181be1bd7f02f9cc3dff72ee7c8bd879 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rupert Dance Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 20:02:17 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Updated OFED_release_notes and others for OFED 3.12-1 GA --- OFED_release_notes.txt | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- OFED_tips.txt | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++--------------------- README.txt | 6 +++--- 3 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-) diff --git a/OFED_release_notes.txt b/OFED_release_notes.txt index c927dac..18f0975 100644 --- a/OFED_release_notes.txt +++ b/OFED_release_notes.txt @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) Version 3.12-1 Release Notes - October 2014 + January 2015 =============================================================================== Table of Contents @@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ The OFED package contains the following components: - RedHat EL6.5 2.6.32-431.el6 - RedHat EL6.6 2.6.32-494.el6 - RedHat EL7.0 3.10.0-123.4.4 + - SLES12 3.12.28-4.6 - SLES11 SP3 3.0.76-0.9.1 - kernel.org 3.12 * @@ -202,6 +203,18 @@ http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/MAINTAINERS =============================================================================== 2. Change log =============================================================================== +OFED-3.12-1-rc4 Main Changes from OFED 3.12-1-rc3 +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +1. Updated packages: + - compat-rdma + IB/qib: streamline qib xeon-phi patches + qib add RHEL7 support + RDMA/nes: Fix for register mr with zero length + - ofed-scripts + install.pl: Build intel-mic-psm as needed + uninstall.sh: Replaced by perl script + install.pl: Remove kernel version check for qib/ipathverbs + OFED-3.12-1-rc3 Main Changes from OFED 3.12-1-rc2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Add support for the OSes @@ -221,7 +234,7 @@ OFED-3.12-1-rc2 Main Changes from OFED 3.12-1-rc1 xeon-phi: remove bogus comment in compat-rdma.spec xeon-phi: updates to ibp_server xeon-phi: updated technology preview for ibscif - RDMA/ocrdma: Add a fix for mmaping kernel mem to user + RDMA/ocrdma: Add a fix for mapping kernel mem to user cxgb4: GRO busted in sles/rhel backports. cxgb4: Fix vlan support in sles and rhel backport. add missing docs directory @@ -273,12 +286,16 @@ components of the OFED 3.12-1 release. 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. -08. RDS is supported only on kernel.org 3.5 and not on any distro OS. -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. -10. There are two known issues with NFSoRDMA that are documented in bugs 2489 and 2507. - The issue have been resolved in kernel 3.17 rc6 but has not been backported to OFED 3.12-1. +08. RDS is supported only on kernel.org 3.5 and not on any Distro OS. +09. Newer SLES or RHEL patch kernels that are updates to the original kernel that + is included in the original SLES or RHEL distributions may not work with + OFED-3.12-1. The list of kernels that are supported are listed in section 1.2. +10. There are a few known issues with NFSoRDMA that are documented in bugs 2489 + and 2507. We believe the issues have been resolved in kernel 3.18 but the + backports have not been applied to OFED 3.12-1. +11. Bug 2515: when an Intel HCA is attached directly to a Mellanox ConnectX3 + and the OpenSM is started on the Inetl HCA, the link will not go to active. + The workaround is to start the OpenSM on the Mellanox HCA. Note: See the release notes of each component for additional issues. diff --git a/OFED_tips.txt b/OFED_tips.txt index 945ee0a..8df1839 100644 --- a/OFED_tips.txt +++ b/OFED_tips.txt @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) - Tips for Working with OFED 3.12 - May 2014 + Tips for Working with OFED 3.12-1 + January 2015 =============================================================================== Table of Contents @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Table of Contents 1. OFED Utilities 2. Debug HOWTOs 3. Pinning (Locking) User Memory Pages -4. External Module Compilation Over OFED-3.12 +4. External Module Compilation Over OFED-3.12-1 5. Adding vendor specific actions to the installation of OFED 6. How to compile OFED sources manually @@ -182,17 +182,17 @@ c. Using sysfs file system ------------------------------------------- The text file BUILD_ID provides data on all OFED components (whether installed or not). This file is a part of the ofed-docs RPM and installed under -/usr/share/doc/ofed-docs-3.12 on RedHat, and under -/usr/share/doc/packages/ofed-docs-3.12 on SuSE. +/usr/share/doc/ofed-docs-3.12-1 on RedHat, and under +/usr/share/doc/packages/ofed-docs-3.12-1 on SuSE. The same information can be obtained by executing the 'ofed_info' command. For example: # ofed_info -s -OFED-3.12: +OFED-3.12-1: # ofed_info -OFED-3.12-rc2: +OFED-3.12-1: compat-rdma: git://git.openfabrics.org/compat-rdma/compat-rdma.git master @@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ commit b03e0663469816ab598a7d2a76eee9ff34214305 compat-rdma: linux: -git://git.openfabrics.org/compat-rdma/linux-3.12.git master +git://git.openfabrics.org/compat-rdma/linux-3.12-1.git master commit f9e99187aaf53533d86c864e4abc9b6073ffa588 compat-rdma: @@ -218,9 +218,9 @@ For example: # /etc/infiniband/info prefix=/usr -Kernel=2.6.32_358.el6.x86_64 +Kernel=2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64 -Configure options: --with-core-mod --with-user_mad-mod --with-user_access-mod --with-addr_trans-mod --with-mthca-mod --with-mlx4-mod --with-mlx4_en-mod --with-cxgb3-mod --with-cxgb4-mod --with-nes-mod --with-qib-mod --with-ipoib-mod --with-srp-mod +Configure options: --with-core-mod --with-user_mad-mod --with-user_access-mod --with-addr_trans-mod --with-mthca-mod --with-mlx4-mod --with-mlx4_en-mod --with-mlx5-mod --with-cxgb3-mod --with-cxgb4-mod --with-nes-mod --with-qib-mod --with-ocrdma-mod --with-ipoib-mod --with-srp-mod --with-iser-mod --with-nfsrdma-mod 2.3 Building/Installing InfiniBand (IB) Modules With Debug Information ---------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ Note: The file /etc/security/limits.conf contains further documentation. =============================================================================== -4. External Module Compilation Over OFED-3.12 +4. External Module Compilation Over OFED-3.12-1 =============================================================================== To build kernel modules depending on OFED's modules, take the Modules.symvers @@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ Example: MODULES_DIR=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/updates ./create_Module.symvers.sh See "Module versioning & Module.symvers" in the modules.txt from kernel -documentation (e.g. linux-3.12/Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt). +documentation (e.g. linux-3.12-1/Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt). Example of the Makefile: obj-m += rdma_krping.o @@ -409,11 +409,11 @@ meaning without building the RPMs and without using the install.pl script. 6.1 Compiling the kernel modules -------------------------------- -1. tar xzf OFED-3.12.tgz -2. rpm -ihv OFED-3.12/SRPMS/compat-rdma-3.12-OFED.3.12.src.rpm +1. tar xzf OFED-3.12-1.tgz +2. rpm -ihv OFED-3.12-1/SRPMS/compat-rdma-3.12-1-OFED.3.12-1.src.rpm 3. cd /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES -4. tar xzvf compat-rdma-3.12.tgz -5. cd compat-rdma-3.12 +4. tar xzvf compat-rdma-3.12-1.tgz +5. cd compat-rdma-3.12-1 6. configure: run ./configure --help for a list of options. basic invocation is: @@ -428,18 +428,18 @@ NOTES: 6.2 Compiling the user space libraries -------------------------------------- -To install user space library from the source RPM provided by OFED-3.12 manually, +To install user space library from the source RPM provided by OFED-3.12-1 manually, do the following: Example for libibverbs: -1. tar xzf OFED-3.12.tgz -2. rpm -ihv SRPMS/libibverbs-1.1.7-1.src.rpm +1. tar xzf OFED-3.12-1.tgz +2. rpm -ihv SRPMS/libibverbs-1.1.8-1.src.rpm 3. cd /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES (for RedHat) or cd /usr/src/packages/SOURCES (for SuSE) -4. tar xzf libibverbs-1.1.7.tgz -5. cd libibverbs-1.1.7 +4. tar xzf libibverbs-1.1.8-1.tgz +5. cd libibverbs-1.1.8-1 6. ./configure (specify parameters, if required) 7. make 8. make install diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt index ba49ab3..7eb1916 100644 --- a/README.txt +++ b/README.txt @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) - Version 3.12 README - October 2014 + Version 3.12-1 README + January 2015 ============================================================================== Table of contents @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Table of contents 1. Overview ============================================================================== -This is the OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) version 3.12 +This is the OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) version 3.12-1 software package supporting InfiniBand, iWARP and RoCE fabrics. It is composed of several software modules intended for use on a computer cluster constructed as an InfiniBand subnet or an iWARP network. -- 2.46.0