From 549397bcf2db7abfac990b7e420b1d5be4f6d433 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Tatyana E. Nikolova" Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 16:00:31 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] libiwpm: Adding release notes for OFED-3.18/libiwpm-1.0.2 Signed-off-by: Tatyana Nikolova --- release_notes/iwpm_release_notes.txt | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 62 insertions(+) create mode 100644 release_notes/iwpm_release_notes.txt diff --git a/release_notes/iwpm_release_notes.txt b/release_notes/iwpm_release_notes.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d378a0e --- /dev/null +++ b/release_notes/iwpm_release_notes.txt @@ -0,0 +1,62 @@ + Release Notes for libiwpm-1.0.2 + Distributed with OFED-3.18 + July 2015 + +DESCRIPTION + +libiwpm provides a user space service (iwpmd) for the iWarp drivers +to claim tcp ports through the standard socket interface. +The drivers currently using the service are Intel nes and Chelsio cxgb4. + +PREREQUISITES + +libiwpm requires libnl-1 or higher version and the corresponding libnl-devel +to be installed. + +The kernel space support for the port mapper is part of the iw_cm module. +The ib_core module includes netlink support, which is used by the port mapper +clients to exchange messages with iwpmd. Both modules iw_cm and ib_core need to +be loaded in order for the libiwpm service to start successfully. + +If the libiwpm is installed, but the required modules aren't loaded, you need to +load the modules and then restart the libiwpm service. + +OFED-3.18 is the first OFED package to include libiwpm. + +STARTING THE SERVICE + +After installing an OFED package which includes libiwpm, the service should start +automatically after reboot. + +To check if the service is running: +ps aux | grep iwpmd + +To start/stop the libiwpm service use: +service iwpmd start +service iwpmd stop + +With systemd, to start/stop the libiwpm service use: +systemctl start iwpmd +systemctl stop iwpmd + +BUILDING NOTES + +cd libiwpm-1.0.x +./configure --prefix /usr +make +make install + +To start the service manually: + +/usr/bin/iwpmd + +CHANGES: + +- Allow registration of multiple devices per netlink client +- Fixes to enable the iwpmd install and start when systemd is available +- Adding "ulimit -n 102400" to the start up scripts to allow testing with + high number of connections +- Adding functionality to enable libiwpm to provide the remote connecting + peer address information to its clients +- Adding SIGUSR1 handler to print all port mapper mappings which are in use +- Adding support for handling wild card IP addresses -- 2.41.0