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Pradeep Satyanarayana <pradeep.com> - 
1. Feature Overview:
Feature Id:	[201642]
a. Name of Feature:	 Include IB bonding feature from OFED recent release
b. Feature Description
This features include InfiniBand bonding from OFED 1.4 or later
2. Feature Details:
Sponsor:	Linux Systems Tech
Architectures:
x86
x86_64
ppc64

Arch Specificity: Both
Affects Kernel Modules: Yes
Delivery Mechanism: Direct from community
Category:	Networking
Request Type:	Package - Feature from Upstream
d. Upstream Acceptance:	Accepted
Sponsor Priority	1
f. Severity: High
IBM Confidential:	no
Code Contribution:	3rd party code
g. Component Version Target:	

3. Business Case
IBM middle ware (HPC, GPFS, DB2 etc.) ability to use "failover mechanisms" on IB interconnects

4. Primary contact at Red Hat: 
John Jarvis
jjarvis

5. Primary contacts at Partner:
Project Management Contact:
Mike Wortman, wortman.com, 512-838-8582

Technical contact(s):
Pradeep Satyanarayana, pradeep.com

IBM Manager:
Larry Kessler, lkessler.com

IB bonding is enabled in the 2.6.32 kernels.  However, we do *not* use an ib-bonding package like OFED does.  OFED does that merely to deliver a modified core bonding module for kernels that don't already support IB bonding.  Since we do, that package is not necessary.  Setting up ib bonding is done the same is it is done for ethernet interfaces, via the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ib? files.  Only failover mode bonding is support, this is a limitation of the IB hardware.

------- Comment From sglass.com 2010-02-01 08:42 EDT-------
Since this is in RH cvs tree, moving to Accepted state

------- Comment From halves.ibm.com 2010-05-17 17:16 EDT-------
Hello,

IB Bonding worked on RHEL6 snap3.

Regards,

Higor

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 is now available and should resolve
the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed
with a resolution of CURRENTRELEASE. You may reopen this bug report if the
solution does not work for you.