[Pkg-ofed-devel] ofed + ubuntu

[Guy Coates]

Mark J. Pearrow wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've installed the OFED packages from 
> http://pkg-ofed.alioth.debian.org/apt/ofed on an Ubuntu 9.04 system. All
> of the packages install fine (aptitude install ofed) and utilities like
> ibstat, ibping and so forth work fine. However, trying to use
> ib_write_bw gives an error like this:
> 
> mlx4: There is a mismatch between the kernel and the userspace
> libraries: Kernel does not support XRC. Exiting.
> 
Hi Mark,

Thanks for the installation report.

XRC support is currently not in the mainline kernel infiniband modules.

You have two options:

1) Not worry about it. The only package that actually uses XRC are the
benchmarking programs in the perftest package.


2) Build a set of OFED kernel modules.

On debian you can use module-assistant to build the OFED kernel for you.

http://pkg-ofed.alioth.debian.org/howto/infiniband-howto-3.html

In theory, this should also work on ubuntu too. However, the ofa-kernel package
only contains patches for kernels <= 2.6.26, so I suspect that it will not build
correctly against the ubuntu 2.6.28. (I don't have an ubuntu system to test).

If you want to try anyhow, you will need to dig into the ofa-kernel package and
hack the ofed_scripts/ofed_patch.sh, which is responsible for guessing the
kernel version and building the appropriate modules.

Cheers,

Guy

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