[openfabrics-ewg] [openib-general] OFED 1.1 planning meeting - summary

Mon Jul 24 22:11:36 PDT 2006

Cisco IB host drivers are available at
http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/sfs-linux and
http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/sfs-win2K.

Scott

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	From: openib-general-bounces at openib.org
[mailto:openib-general-bounces at openib.org] On Behalf Of Tziporet Koren
	Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 2:45 PM
	To: openfabrics-ewg at openib.org
	Cc: openib
	Subject: Re: [openib-general] [openfabrics-ewg] OFED 1.1
planning meeting - summary

	Hi all,

	This is the outcome of the meeting we had today regarding OFED
1.1 schedule and features.

	Tziporet

	1. Schedule:

	============

	Target release date: 31-Aug 

	Intermediate milestones:

	1.    Create 1.1 branch of user level code and rc1: 27-Jul

	2.    Feature freeze : 3-Aug 

	3.    Code freeze (rc-x): 25-Aug 

	4.    Final release: 31-Aug

	In general all agreed but it seems aggressive schedule. We will
delay in 1 week if needed or drop some features.

	There was a request for another OFED release toward SC06 that
will include most updated Open MPI version and we agreed this is
possible.

	git tree of kernel code will be available on Sandia servers once
their system administrator will setup the server with git installed
(should be this week)

	2. Features:

	============

	Note: features that are under low priority may not be qualified
in final release due to schedule limitations.

	1. OS:

	Novell:

	- SLES 9.0 SP3*

	- SLES10 (official release)*

	Redhat:

	- Redhat EL4 up3

	- Redhat EL4 up4*

	kernel.org:

	- Kernel 2.6.17*

	* Changes from last release

	Note: Redhat EL4 up2, Fedora C4 and SuSE Pro 10 were dropped
from the list.

	We will keep the backport patches for these OSes and make sure
OFED compile and loaded properly but will not do full QA cycle.

	2. General changes:

	-        lib32 on 64 bits systems

	-        Kernel code based on 2.6.18

	-        HCA fatal - full flow support - Low priority

	-        High Availability in IPoIB and SRP

	-        Bug fixes

	3. OSM (new code based on the trunk):

	-        Partition Manager (Pkey) - Low priority 

	-        Pre-computed routing load from file 

	-        Primitive QoS - As technology preview 

	Mainly developed and verified by Voltaire.

	4. SDP:

	-        Beta quality (higher stability)

	-        Improved latency

	-        Improved bandwidth of small messages (Naggle algorithm)
- done

	-        Support the backlog parameter in the listen call

	-        support sending/receiving out of band data 

	-        Interoperability with previous SDP implementation

	We need SDP from Cisco to test the interoperability with their
SDP

	5. SRP:

	-        GA quality

	-        DM (Device Mapper) - for high availability

	-        Basic failover/failback testing with daemon+srp+XVM/MPP
and Engenio target

	A technical mail was published on the general list. (Subject:
Needed changes to support fail-over drivers). Need help from Roland to
close the technical details since he is SRP maintainer.

	6. IPoIB:

	-        High availability support using a daemon in user level

	7. uDAPL:

	-        Scalability features needed for Intel MPI 

	-        Going to take the new code from the trunk

	8. OSU - MVAPICH:

	-        Based on 0.97 (+ bug fixes)

	-        Message coalescing

	9. Open MPI:

	-        Open MPI 1.1.1 - Depending on the dates/schedule of
OFED 1.1 and Open MPI 1.1.1 (If not then Open MPI 1.1 will be used)

	-        The major differences between Open MPI 1.1 and 1.1.1
can be seen here: http://svn.open-mpi.org/svn/ompi/trunk/NEWS

	10. MPI tests:

	-        Replace to the new test versions from LLNL, Intel, OSU

	11. iSER:

	-        Stability - code review and bug fixes at iser and
libiscsi code related to error handling (libiscsi is a service module
used by both iscsi_tcp & iser)

	-        Testing more platforms (e.g. ppc64 and ia64)

	-        Performance improvements

	-        The libiscsi fixes are (2.6.18-rc2/3) and will (2.6.19)
be pushed upstream and from there be propagated to distros (eg SLES10
RH5) through their merge process.

	12. RDS:

	-        Oracle and SilverStorm should update 

	Need to decide if RDS should be removed from OFED since Oracle
does not support it for now.

	Sujal will check it and we will get to decision soon.

	13: Management: 

	-        Madeye utility 

	-        Add saquery tool

	-        Enhancement to ibnetdiscover tool with grouping
function

	-        New ibutils package: 

	o        Port error counter check 

	o        Port performance counters dump 

	o        Link width and Link Speed check by flag

	-----Original Message-----
	From: openfabrics-ewg-bounces at openib.org
[mailto:openfabrics-ewg-bounces at openib.org] On Behalf Of Sujal Das
	Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 8:32 PM
	To: openfabrics-ewg at openib.org
	Subject: [openfabrics-ewg] OFED 1.1 planning meeting

	Hello all,

	We would like to call an OFED v1.1 planning meeting ASAP.  We
can use

	the regular time and call-in number that Shawn/Jeff from Cisco
had set

	up earlier.  Shawn/Jeff: will you please confirm and send a
reminder?

	Some critical feature requirements for OFED 1.1 are based on
customer

	feedback on OFED 1.0, specifically some missing features that
continue

	the perception of OFED 1.0 as being inferior to proprietary
stacks:

	- Support for SLES 9 in general

	- SRP failover and MPP

	- SDP usability

	- RDS usability

	- UDAPL scalability

	- High Availability

	- Additional OS/CPU platforms support for iSER, sync with
upstream

	kernel

	- Etc

	Thanks,

	Sujal  

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