[Lustre-discuss] Lustre and Infiniband

[Isaac Huang]

On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 07:36:35AM -0500, Nathan Allen Stratton wrote:
> 
> I am working to build a pool of xen dom0 with lustre support, since lustre
> 1.6.3 and xen 3.1.0 both use 2.6.18 kernel it was easier then I thought to
> patch them both in. However I have not been able to find much info on
> infiniband setup. I was using Gluster over infiniband using OFED 2.5.1 so
> I know all my hardware works just fine.
> 
> It looks like I need to specify --with-openib=, but I can't find that in
> OFED 2.5.1, so went back release by release and found that OFED 1.1 had
> openib-1.1.tgz in the SOURCES directory. If I build OFED with the standard
> build scripts it works fine, however, if I try to build openib-1.1 I no
> longer get my ib0 and ib1 interfaces.
> 

The correct configure option to specify OFED header path is
--with-o2ib. Also, it seems to me that OFED 2.5.1 doesn't exist.

HTH,
Isaac