From 74e38cca1abe419ac8f9d84993a710174f707644 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tziporet Koren Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 11:31:37 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] updated new features of 1.2 release --- OFED_release_notes.txt | 73 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 60 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/OFED_release_notes.txt b/OFED_release_notes.txt index 11b0fff..d6acf65 100644 --- a/OFED_release_notes.txt +++ b/OFED_release_notes.txt @@ -123,14 +123,14 @@ companies: ------------------------ The following third party packages have been tested with OFED 1.2: 1. Intel MPI, Version 3.0 - Package ID: l_mpi_p_3.0.043 -2. HP MPIi, Version 2.2.5 +2. HP MPI, Version 2.2.5 1.6 OFED Sources: ----------------- Source repositories: http://www.openfabrics.org/git/ Kernel sources: ~vlad/ofed_1_2/.git -User level Sourcesi are located in all git trees starting with: ofed_1_2/ +User level Sources are located in all git trees starting with: ofed_1_2/ The kernel sources are based on Linux 2.6.20 mainline kernel. Its patches are included in the OFED sources directory. @@ -145,34 +145,83 @@ for each package in the docs directory. 2.1 General changes: o Kernel code based on 2.6.20 + o New kernel modules: SA Cache, RDS, VNIC, bonding + o High availability of SRP and IPoIB in GA level + o Added iWARP support (with Chelsio driver) + o MAN pages for libraries (libibverbs and librdmacm) 2.1 IPoIB: + o IPoIB Connected Mode + o High availability support using the bonding module. 2.2 SDP: + o netstat is now available + o Improved message BW: + - 10X for small messages + - 5X for medium messages + o Scalability: + - Added a memory consumption limit 2.3 SRP: + o High availability is now supported for all systems. 2.4 iSER: o Testing more platforms (e.g., ppc64 and ia64) + o Updated packages for ISCSI kernel & user components bundled with OFED. 2.5 uDAPL o Scalability features needed for Intel MPI + 2.6 Libraries + a. libibverbs 1.1: + o Fork support (requires apps change) + o Better low-level driver handling, including multiple drivers linked + in statically + o Documentation: man pages + b. librdmacm (uCMA) 1.0: + o Multicast joining from user space + o UD support + o Documentation: man pages + + 2.7 OSM: + o Routing improvements + o Performance improvement to min hop and up/down of over an order of magnitude + o New fat-tree and LASH algorithms + o SA optional record support "virtually" complete + o IB router enablement + o SA database dump/restore + + 2.8 Management: + o Many diagnostic improvements since OFED 1.1 (see detailed RN) + o ibdiagui: A GUI for ibdiagnet + + 2.9 Install: + o Default prefix directory is now /usr + 2.6 MPI: a. OSU MVAPICH: - o Version was changed to 0.9.9 + o Version was updated to 0.9.9 b. Open MPI: - o Version was updated to v1.1.1 - o Bug fixes and general enhancements over v1.1 + o Version was updated to 1.2.1 o See http://www.open-mpi.org/svn/new.php for details c. OSU MVAPICH2: o MVAPICH2 version 0.98 was added to the OFED package. + d. Common MPI setup sourcing: + Simple menu-driven interface to choose which MPI implementation to set as + the default on a per-user and/or system-wide basis + + 2.7 iWARP Support + o Chelsio NIC supported + o Verbs and CMA APIs are the same as Infiniband + o ULPs that are supported: + - MPI (mvapich2 tested) + - uDAPL + o Basic Testing: + - uDAPL + - mvapich2 + - NFS-RDMA + o Status: Beta - 2.7 OSM: - - 2.8 Management: - - 2.9 Install: =============================================================================== 3. Fixed Bugs @@ -181,9 +230,7 @@ for each package in the docs directory. 2. Hotplug removal does not hang the system when the device is used by the uverbs interface. 3. MVAPICH does work on ppc64. -4. libibcm is not thread safe: if several threads use libibcm, the function - ib_cm_get_device will give the same device to all of the threads, which - can cause thread X to get events that were sent to thread Y. +4. libibcm is now thread safe. Bugs fixed in each package are reported in the packages release notes. -- 2.41.0