From a22f40f95552063d192684e4885717e83115fc8f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rupert Dance Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2015 19:17:34 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Updated RN for OFED-3.18-1 GA Signed-off-by: Rupert Dance --- OFED_release_notes.txt | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------ 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) diff --git a/OFED_release_notes.txt b/OFED_release_notes.txt index 0f78714..830564b 100644 --- a/OFED_release_notes.txt +++ b/OFED_release_notes.txt @@ -1,12 +1,12 @@ Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) Version 3.18-1 Release Notes - October 2015 + November 2015 =============================================================================== Table of Contents =============================================================================== 1. Overview, which includes: - - OFED Distribution Rev 3.18 Contents + - OFED Distribution Rev 3.18-1 Contents - Supported Platforms and Operating Systems - Supported HCA and RNIC Adapter Cards and Firmware Versions - Tested Switch Platforms @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Table of Contents 1. Overview =============================================================================== These are the release notes of OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) -release 3.18. The OFED software package is composed of several software modules, +release 3.18-1. 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. @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Note: If you plan to upgrade the OFED package on your cluster, please upgrade all of its nodes to this new version. -1.1 OFED 3.18 Contents +1.1 OFED 3.18-1 Contents ----------------------- The OFED package contains the following components: - OpenFabrics core and ULPs: @@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ RoCE Switches 1.5 Third Party Packages ------------------------ -The following third party packages have been tested with OFED 3.18: +The following third party packages have been tested with OFED 3.18-1: - Open MPI - 1.8 - Intel MPI 4.1.3 - MVAPICH2 @@ -205,6 +205,12 @@ http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/MAINTAINERS =============================================================================== 2. Change log =============================================================================== +OFED-3.18-1 Main Changes from OFED 3.18-1-rc2 +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +1. Updated packages: + - libocrdma-1.0.6 + - perftest-3.0-0.12 + OFED-3.18-1-rc2 Main Changes from OFED 3.18-1-rc1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Updated packages: @@ -322,12 +328,12 @@ OFED-3.18-rc1 Main Changes from OFED 3.12-1 GA 3. Known Issues =============================================================================== The following is a list of general limitations and known issues of the various -components of the OFED 3.18 release. +components of the OFED 3.18-1 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 3.18 or reboot the server after OFED installation. + upgrading to OFED 3.18-1 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. @@ -346,22 +352,24 @@ components of the OFED 3.18 release. /etc/modprobe.d/unsupported-modules. Without this the modules will not load. 08. RDS is not supported. -09. Bugs 2489 & 2507: 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. -10. Bug 2515: when an Intel HCA is attached directly to a Mellanox ConnectX3 +09. Bug 2515: when an Intel HCA is attached directly to a Mellanox ConnectX3 and the OpenSM is started on the Intel HCA, the link will not go to active. The workaround is to start the OpenSM on the Mellanox HCA. -11. Bug 2544: Libfabric depends on infinipath-psm. When OFED is compiled --with-xeon-phi, - it will fail to compile/install because infinipath-psm is renamed when intel-mic-psm RPMs - are now built/installed. This will be resolved in OFED 3.18-1 -12. Bug 2545: ipath will not compile on SLES11 SP4 and RHEL6.7 because these releases - are not supported in OFED 3.18. They will be added in 3.18-1 -13. Bug 2547: HCA driver seems to load, but does not seem to configure a device -14. Bug 2555: ib_send_bw –run_infinitely fails to terminate on the server after client - disconnects -15. Bug 2559: unexpected CM event 8 error seen on running iwarp traffic after the - restart of iwpmd service +10. Bug 2553: Unable to run UD traffic using qperf on a RoCE R-NIC +11. Bug 2561: Devices do not receive the echo reply of the first ping sequence + when the payload size is 65493 or higher. This is still an issues in the + 4.3 kernel and should be resolved in a future OFED 4.x release +12. Bug 2574: Installing OFED (with --with_xeon_phi and qib=y in ofed.conf file) + makes the access to the scif char device fail. + psmd uses scif functions to allow psm to connect to the Phi devices. + It also makes sure it can connect to them when the service is started. + Scif functions cannot be called unless the mpss service is running. + Since openibd starts the psmd service, it should be loaded after mpss + This will be resolved in OFED 3.18-2 +13. Bug 2580: NFSoRDMA client on PPC64LE will crash while trying to mount to + a NFSoRDMA server running on x86 box. This will be resolved in OFED 3.18-2 +14. The ipath and eHCA drivers will be deprecated in the next OFED build that + uses a kernel >= 4.3 Note: See the release notes of each component for additional issues. -- 2.41.0