[Beowulf] RHEL7 kernel update for L1TF vulnerability breaks RDMA

[Chris Samuel]

On Tuesday, 11 September 2018 9:17:21 AM AEST Ryan Novosielski wrote:

> So we’ve learned what, here, that RedHat doesn’t test the RDMA stack at all?

It certainly does seem to be the case.  Unlike other issues I've hit in the 
past with bugs introduced in the IB stack in 6.x -> 6.y transitions where 
they've needed more hardware than you could reasonably expect them to have to 
be able to spot the bug this is a pretty fundamental failure.

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