HP IB4X-00 Driver for InfiniBand Release Notes, September 2009

This document provides information about the B.11.31.0909 (AR0909) and the subsequent
B.11.31.0909.1 (WR0909) releases of the HP IB4X-00 driver for InfiniBand.
IB4X-00 Driver for InfiniBand Overview
Starting with the B.11.31.0909 release and the WR0906 release, the HP IB4X-00 Driver for
InfiniBand supports Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) Protocol for the Oracle RAC environment.
New and Changed Features in This Release
New Features
The following feature is new with the B.11.31.0909 version of the IB4X-00 Driver for InfiniBand:
• Reliable Datagram Sockets Protocol for Oracle RAC environments.
Changed Features
The following feature has been changed with the B.11.31.0909 version of the IB4X-00 Driver for
InfiniBand:
• There are no changed features with this release.
Known Problems Fixed in This Version
Table 1 lists the issues that have been fixed in the IB4X-00 Driver for InfiniBand HP-UX 11i v3
September 2009 WR0909 release. Table 2 lists the issues that have been fixed in the IB4X-00 Driver
for InfiniBand HP-UX 11i v3 September 2009 AR0909 release. To view the entire details of each
issue fix, refer to the HP IT Resource Center at: http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/home.do
Table 1 HP-UX September 2009 (WR0909) Fixes
DescriptionDefect ID
The DART81 BA929AA 11iv3 VSE OE software with InfiniBand adapter 448397-B21 failed to
boot at the ESWL_IGNITEUX stage, due to timeout at iux_monitor_reboot. The driver code
has been modified to resolve this issue.
QXCR1000940168
The new ituil command option, x, has been provided to display the link speed of an InfiniBand
interface.
QXCR1000946862
In the cluster environment, where HP-UX and Linux nodes are connected to the switch,
whenever the HP-UX node reboots, there is an LID change at the HP-UX node, which is
non-compliant with InfiniBand subnet manager protocol.
QXCR1000938720
The PM subsystem in the InfiniBand driver is not responding to ClassPortInfo requests.
For this reason, some of the Linux/OFED tools generate an error when there is an HP-UX host
in the cluster. The tools affected are:
ibcheckerrs
ibcheckerrors
ibdatacounters
ibclearcounters
ibclearerrors
QXCR1000938766
There is a shutdown error during CVA, due to an issue with the RDMA/InfiniBand Driver
Control Script.
QXCR1000962014
Table 2 HP-UX September 2009 (AR0909) Fixes
DescriptionDefect ID
RDS: socket descriptor leak in rdmad
QXCR1000914516
RDS: application crash in rds user library
QXCR1000925537
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