[CentOS] Recommendations for Infiniband with CentOS 6.7

[Fabian Arrotin]

On 25/05/16 03:08, Pat Haley wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> We looking for suggestions on dealing with mellanox drivers in CentOS 6.7
> 
> We tried installing mellanox drivers 
> (MLNX_OFED_LINUX-3.2-2.0.0.0-rhel6.7-x86_64) on a Quanta Cirrascale 
> server running Centos 6.7 - 2.6.32-573.22.1.el6.x86_64.  When we 
> rebooted the machine after installing the drivers, it went into a kernel 
> panic for every installed kernel except for Centos 6.7 
> 2.6.32-573.22.1.el6.x86_64.debug.  After we uninstalled the drivers, the 
> machine failed to boot for any installed kernel.
> 
> Any suggestions on how to proceed would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> 

Well, we (CentOS) are using a gluster setup on top of Infiniband, but
we're just using the default mlx4_ib kernel module that is included with
the kernel shipped with 6.7
(/lib/modules/2.6.32-573.22.1.el6.x86_64/kernel/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/mlx4_ib.ko)
so nothing to be done at the kernel/initrd level.

Is there a reason why you needed a different version ?

PS : the IB HBA model we have in those servers is the following one :
81:00.0 InfiniBand: Mellanox Technologies MT25418 [ConnectX VPI PCIe 2.0
2.5GT/s - IB DDR / 10GigE] (rev a0)


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