From ffe34d6e5cb11b07df60837e491c7facf696771f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tziporet Koren Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:46:11 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] updated with all changes from 1.2.5 --- OFED_release_notes.txt | 143 ++++++++++++++--------------------------- 1 file changed, 49 insertions(+), 94 deletions(-) diff --git a/OFED_release_notes.txt b/OFED_release_notes.txt index 6ef75cc..f2be5e6 100644 --- a/OFED_release_notes.txt +++ b/OFED_release_notes.txt @@ -75,8 +75,8 @@ Notes: - RedHat EL4 up5: 2.6.9-55.ELsmp - RedHat EL5: 2.6.18-8.el5 - SLES10: 2.6.16.21-0.8-smp - - kernel.org: 2.6.23.x - SLES10 SP1: 2.6.16.46-0.12-smp + - kernel.org: 2.6.23 1.3 HCAs and RNICs Supported ---------------------------- @@ -138,116 +138,71 @@ Note: For details regarding the various changes, please see the release notes for each package in the docs directory. 2.1 General changes - o Kernel code based on 2.6.23-rc8 + o Kernel code based on 2.6.23 o Quality of Service support in OpenSM, CMA, IPoIB, SRP o Added Neteffect driver (nes) - 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 + 2.2 Package and install + o Break the user space packages RPMs + o The option for a build without installing is not supported any more + o Added an option to generate tarball with kernel sources for each + kernel + + 2.3 IPoIB + o Stateless offloads + o IGMP for user-space multicast IB + o NAPI is enabled default + o High availability is supported via the bonding module only (removed + the scripts) + + 2.4 SDP + o Keep-alive + o Asynch IO + o Send Zero Copy + + 2.5 iSER + o ??? + + 2.6 VNIC + o Update for PathScale HCA + + 2.7 RDS + o RDMA API (using FMRs) + o GA quality with Oracle 11 + + 2.8 uDAPL + o Add DAT 2.0 API run-time library and development support. i + uDAPL 2.0 will include IB extensions for IB rdma write with immediate + data and IB atomic operations. + o Both uDAPL 1.2 and 2.0 packages will be provided and will co-exist + + 2.9 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 + 2.10 OSM + o More routing performance improvements + o Even more speedups + o Better packaging/installation + o "Native" daemon mode + o Performance management + o Quality of Service manager: Based on IBTA annex - 2.9 Install - o Default prefix directory is now /usr + 2.11 Management + o Multiple partitions - 2.6 MPI: + 2.12 MPI: a. OSU MVAPICH o Version was updated to 0.9.9 b. Open MPI - o Version was updated to 1.2.1 + o Version was updated to 1.2.2-1 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 supported - - MPI (mvapich2 tested) - - uDAPL - o Basic Testing - - uDAPL - - mvapich2 - - NFS-RDMA - o Status: Beta - - -=============================================================================== -3. Main Changes from OFED 1.2 -=============================================================================== -3.1 Changes in components: - The following components are different between OFED 1.2 and OFED 1.2.5: - User space: - - libmlx4 (new) - - mstflint (was enhanced to support ConnectX IB) - - ofascripts - - perftest - - Kernel: - - Code is based on kernel 2.6.22 - - mthca - - mlx4_core (new) - - mlx4_ib(new) - - core (the verbs providers) - -=============================================================================== -4. Fixed Bugs since OFED 1.2.0 -=============================================================================== -- mad: Fix address handle leak in mad_rmpp -- opensm: Sets the time a packet can live in the Head of Queue of a port that - drives a CA port to approximately 1 second. - In addition number of dropped packets due to HOQ that will stall the CA was - increased to 7 (instead of 1). -- New MVAPICH package - -For changed in the following components see specific release notes: -- mlx4 (ConnectX driver) -- IPoIB -- RDS -- MVAPICH + o Version was updated to 1.0-1. =============================================================================== -- 2.46.0