[Gluster-users] GlusterFS 3.4.0 and 3.3.2 released!

[Joe Julian]

On 07/16/2013 07:29 AM, Pierre-Francois Laquerre wrote:
> On 07/16/2013 08:48 AM, Jon Tegner wrote:
>> Which of these two releases would work "best" using RDMA?
>
> I haven't used RDMA myself, but from what I saw on irc, I would stick 
> to 3.3.x:
My understanding is that the same RDMA issues exist in 3.3.

>
> 16:03 < jclift> RDMA on 3.4 isn't properly working. :(
> 16:04 < dbruhn> what's not working properly?
> 16:05 < dbruhn> jclift, I thought there was a ton of effort going into 
> 3.4 for IB/RDMA
> 16:05 < jclift> dbruhn: Well, I kept on hitting basic issues when 
> trying out distributed+replicated setups.
> 16:05 < jclift> dbruhn: (With RDMA )
> 16:05 < jclift> dbruhn: Yeah, there's been a large amount of code 
> improvements
> 16:06 < jclift> dbruhn: However, we've hit several bugs with rdma 
> stuff when testing, even though the tcp side seemed to not have issues 
> at the same point
> 16:07 < jclift> dbruhn: So, the thought process was pretty much "k, 
> lets get 3.4.0 out the door so non-rdma users have some goodness, and 
> we'll keep on working on rdma for (hopefully) 3.4.1"
> 16:07 < dbruhn> jclift, so what is needed for this to move past it?
> 16:08 < jclift> dbruhn: There are a couple of points to it. Note, this 
> is based on my opinion atm... :)
> 16:08 < jclift> dbruhn: Firstly, we need to get the Gluster Test 
> Framework updated so it can test RDMA stuff.
> 16:09 < jclift> dbruhn: That's in progress, but is kind of blocked by 
> an upstream Linux kernel bug, that kernel panics in the fuse module.  
> Niels has a proposed patch to fix it:
> 16:09 < jclift> dbruhn: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/15/203
> (this is from 2013-Jul-16)
>
> Pierre-Francois
>
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