Bug 718657 - libsdp is missing in RHELL6
Summary: libsdp is missing in RHELL6
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: distribution
Version: 6.1
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: RHEL Program Management
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-07-04 07:27 UTC by Kirby Zhou
Modified: 2011-07-05 23:05 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2011-07-05 23:05:23 UTC
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Description Kirby Zhou 2011-07-04 07:27:14 UTC 
Description of problem:

libsdp is missing in RHELL6.

libsdp is a component of OFED which is the industry standard of InfiniBand linux driver.

RHEL5 is released with libsdp-1.1.99, but RHEL6 misses this package.
libsdp is very useful to boost up network performance of legacy applications within an Infiniband environment. With libsdp, the network bandwidth can boost up from 9Gbit/s to 20Gbit/s.

Please bring us the libsdp back.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

RHEL-6.0, RHEL-6.1
Comment 3 Doug Ledford 2011-07-05 23:05:23 UTC 
This is not a bug, it is intentional.  Libsdp relies upon the sdp kernel module, which is also not present in RHEL6 as the sdp kernel driver was never, and will never, make it into an upstream kernel.  As it was a stopgap measure until the needed applications where ported to a native RDMA transfer methodology, and as they have now had close to 5 years to get it done, it is time for sdp to go away.
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