[LU-554] add gnilnd awareness to LNet

• Type: Improvement
• Resolution: Fixed
• Priority: Minor
• Fix Version/s: Lustre 2.2.0, Lustre 2.1.2, Lustre 1.8.8
• Affects Version/s: Lustre 1.8.6
• Environment: Cray clients.
• Bugzilla ID: 23,884
• Assignee: Lai Siyao
• Reporter: Shuichi Ihara (Inactive)

Description

Duplicate of Bugzilla ticket, can we have the gni patch included in 1.8.x please?

Issue Links

• Trackbacks: Lustre 1.8.x known issues tracker While testing against Lustre b18 branch, we would hit known bugs which were already reported in Lustre Bugzilla https://bugzilla.lustre.org/. In order to move away from relying on Bugzilla, we would create a JIRA
• Trackbacks: Changelog 1.8 Changes from version 1.8.7wc1 to version 1.8.8wc1 Server support for kernels: 2.6.18308.4.1.el5 (RHEL5) Client support for unpatched kernels: 2.6.18308.4.1.el5 (RHEL5) 2.6.32220.13.1.el6 (RHEL6) Recommended e2fsprogs version: 1.41.90....
• Trackbacks: Changelog 2.1 Changes from version 2.1.1 to version 2.1.2 Server support for kernels: 2.6.18308.4.1.el5 (RHEL5) 2.6.32220.17.1.el6 (RHEL6) Client support for unpatched kernels: 2.6.18308.4.1.el5 (RHEL5) 2.6.32220.17.1....
• Trackbacks: Changelog 2.2 version 2.2.0 Support for networks: o2iblnd OFED 1.5.4 Server support for kernels: 2.6.32220.4.2.el6 (RHEL6) Client support for unpatched kernels: 2.6.18274.18.1.el5 (RHEL5) 2.6.32220.4.2.el6 (RHEL6) 2.6.32.360....