[Lustre-discuss] OFED 1.5.1 on Clients

[Jason Rappleye]

On Jun 18, 2010, at 7:49 AM, Roger Spellman wrote:

> Jason,
> Thanks for this response.  This brings up another question:

np

> The bug number you referred to mentions an LBUG in OFED 1.4.1.  Are  
> you
> saying that the same LBUG would occur with OFED 1.5.1 too without the
> patch?

Yes. The patch handles new RDMA CM events that appear in OFED 1.4(. 
1?). They are also in 1.5.1. Without the patch, receipt of one of  
those events will result in an LBUG.

Jason

>
> -Roger
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jason Rappleye [mailto:jason.rappleye at nasa.gov]
>> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 5:02 PM
>> To: Roger Spellman
>> Cc: lustre-discuss at lists.lustre.org
>> Subject: Re: [Lustre-discuss] OFED 1.5.1 on Clients
>>
>>
>> On Jun 17, 2010, at 1:23 PM, Roger Spellman wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> Can anyone share their experiences using OFED 1.5.1 on Lustre
>>> Clients?  This is needed because RHAT 5.5 does not support OFED
> 1.4.2.
>>
>> We're using it with ~9300 clients running Lustre 1.6.6 and haven't
>> identified any OFED 1.5.1-specific issues. If you're using 1.6.x and
>> haven't done so already, you'll want to apply bug 19520 attach 23498.
>>
>> We just deployed 1.8.2 on a separate cluster with ~130 clients and
>> haven't seen any OFED-specific issues there, either. While we did see
>> some failures when running acc-sm with the stack of software we use
>> here, none of those had anything to do with the version of OFED we
>> were running.
>>
>

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Jason Rappleye
System Administrator
NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division
NASA Ames Research Center
Moffett Field, CA 94035