[Lustre-discuss] RHEL5's OFED with lustre1.8.2 on IB

[Lawrence Sorrillo]

I am about to try to build lustre again as I am getting hangs with the 
lustre mounts in my previous build.

"Apr 7 09:09:30 host0 kernel: LustreError: 
5270:0:(o2iblnd_cb.c:2883:kiblnd_check_txs()) Timed out tx: active_txs, 
9 seconds
Apr 7 09:09:30 host0 kernel: LustreError: 
5270:0:(o2iblnd_cb.c:2945:kiblnd_check_conns()) Timed out RDMA with 
172.17.1.108 at o2ib (84)"

Here is the plan. Lustre 1.8.2 on rhel5 x86_64 using the ofed in the rhel5 kernel.


I have gathered the following packages from the lustre site:
e2fsprogs-1.41.6.sun1-0redhat.rhel5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-2.6.18-164.6.1.0.1.el5.src.rpm
lustre-client-1.8.2-2.6.18_164.6.1.0.1.el5_lustre.1.8.2.x86_64.rpm
lustre-client-modules-1.8.2-2.6.18_164.6.1.0.1.el5_lustre.1.8.2.x86_64.rpm

I want to get the kernel-2.6.18-164.6.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm binary from 
kernel-2.6.18-164.6.1.0.1.el5.src.rpm. Then I am hoping to
the install the two lustre-client packages along with the new created 
kernel binary and be done with it.

Since this setup is meant to work with IB I am hoping that all will be 
consistent with the
IB/OFED that comes with kernel-2.6.18-164.6.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm and the 
lustre-client modules.

I know that RHEL5 comes with OFED1.4.1-rc3. Is this a reasonable approach?

Thanks.