Bug#273713: Lustre packaging

[Alastair McKinstry <alastair.mckinstry@ichec.ie>]

Jimmy Tang wrote:
> Hi Alastair,
>
>   
>> The 2.6.16 code I have works for light use: survives some tests such as 
>> bonnie, etc. 
>> but hangs in large workloads: I'm debugging this, but would prefer to 
>> target 2.6.17 for Etch. 
>> (even if we don't get in the Etch release, I'd like to support the 
>> stable kernel.) Some patches 
>> ported to 2.6.17.
>>     
>
> Out of curiousity what sort of heavy workloads are you trying out on the
> system?
>
>   
None at the moment; we've a small test cluster that had driver issues up
to 2.6.17, and so i'm trying out 2.6.17.
> I'd be interested in testing the package out on a small test cluster
> here as well for users who have heavy IO needs.
>
> also is there any interest in testing these patches for 2.6.16/17 with
> with the openib patches/stacks?
>
>
>   
give it a bit to sort out some issues with the packaging.  The current
head-of-tree
in the repo is definitely a Work in progress, concentrating on merging
current work
by Goswin von Brederlow and myself (and others); I plan to get an
experimental release
worth proper testing, then we can add openib patches. I'll email you as
soon as thats
ready. Do you have openib patches for 2.6.16/17 ?
> Jimmy.
>
>
>   

Alastair