On 05/18/2016 11:22 AM, Woodruff, Robert J wrote:
>> In this case, I expect you guys to be hurting hard when you try to do all the backports. The problem is that in the last year we have made lots >of changes that depend on upstream kernel improvements both inside the RDMA stack and out. I suspect this backport cycle may be worse >than those in the past. But I could be wrong...
>
> Yes, and of course it depends on which distro kernel we attempt to backport to. For the later model RHEL 7.x and SLES 12 kernels, it may not
> be as bad, if those kernels have picked up the required upstream kernel improvements. I am however worried that it might be too hard to try to backport to a RHEL 6.x series kernel. We'll have to evaluate that once we start work on the next major OFED.
I would not be surprised in the least if backports to an EL6 kernel are
a simple no-go for current upstream code.
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