CTDB InfiniBand support status

[Peter Somogyi]

At that early time, ethernet was chosen to focus on.
A lot of development would be needed to make it work.

Peter

On 2013 June 05 Wednesday 14.04.38 Maxim Gorbachyov wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> Could you please provide some information on InfiniBand support in CTDB?
> 
> That's what I see with current CTDB master:
> 
> $ ./configure --help
> ...
> Optional Features:
> ...
>   --enable-infiniband         Turn on infiniband support (default=no)
> 
> But configure fails:
> 
> $ ./configure --enable-infiniband
> ...
> configure: creating ./config.status
> config.status: creating Makefile
> config.status: creating ctdb.pc
> config.status: creating config.h
> config.status: config.h is unchanged
> config.status: executing rm-stdint.h commands
> config.status: executing rm-stdbool.h commands
> configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --enable-infiniband
> 
> I've changed ib/config.m4 to enable InfiniBand by default, but build fails:
> ...
> Compiling ib/ibwrapper.c
> ib/ibwrapper.c:37:31: error: lib/events/events.h: No such file or directory
> make: *** [ib/ibwrapper.o] Error 1
> 
> It seems like code in ib/ directory is rather outdated. Should it be
> considered usable with current CTDB?
>
-- 
Peter Somogyi
Gamax Kft
Bartok Bela ut 15/D
H-1114, Budapest, Hungary
e-mail: psomogyi at gamax.hu
phone: +36 1 382 5469