Re: [Scst-devel] ib_srpt versus Mellanox OFED

[Curtis M. <cu...@ti...>]

On 29/05/13 00:14, Sebastian Riemer wrote:
> Hi Curtis,

thanks for replying!

> I don't know who builds OFED at Mellanox but it's the same as with
> upstream OFED. They do many things wrong with the back-porting. For SRP
> they've e.g. forgotten to include the "scsi_transport_srp" driver and
> important fixes from Mellanox guys are missing like QP and CQ recreation
> upon reconnect.

We were using it, as I mentioned, to see if our issues with MPIO on the 
ConnectX-3 cards would abate.  Mellanox don't want to talk if you're not 
running their latest drivers.

> I've seen something funny in the release notes:
> http://www.mellanox.com/related-docs/prod_software/Mellanox_OFED_Linux_Release_Notes_2_0-2_0_5.txt
>
> - Storage – iSER (at Beta level) and SRP
>
> iSER is at beta level but SRP is stable in their thinking. :-) And I
> thought, that they are pushing iSER,....

Yeah, they want to move to iSER... even dropped SRP from their WinOFED 
distro for a version -- though it's back in now.

--
Curtis