[openfabrics-ewg] OFED 1.1 planning meeting - schedule and features

[Jeff Squyres]

Did someone take notes at yesterday's meeting?  If so, can they be shared
with the list?

Thanks.


On 7/24/06 11:11 AM, "Tziporet Koren" <tziporet at mellanox.co.il> wrote:

> Hi All,
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> These are the agenda items for the meeting today
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> 1.    OFED 1.1 schedule
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> 2.    OFED 1.1 features
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> Tziporet
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> 1. Schedule:
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> ============
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> Target release date: 31-Aug
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> Intermediate milestones:
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> 1.    Create 1.1 branch of user level code and rc1: 27-Jul
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> 2.    Feature freeze : 3-Aug
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> 3.    Code freeze (rc-x): 25-Aug
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> 4.    Final release: 31-Aug
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> 2. Features:
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> Note: features that are under low priority may not be qualified in final
> release due to schedule limitations.
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> 1. OS:
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> Novell:
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> - SLES 9.0 SP3*
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> - SLES10 (official release)*
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> Redhat:
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> - Redhat EL4 up2
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> - Redhat EL4 up3
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> kernel.org:
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> - Kernel 2.6.17*
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> * Changes from last release
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> Note: Fedora C4 and SuSE Pro 10 were dropped from the list.
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> We will keep the backport patches for these OSes and make sure OFED
> compile and loaded properly but will not do full QA cycle.
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> 2. General changes:
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> -        lib32 on 64 bits systems
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> -        Kernel code based on 2.6.18
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> -        HCA fatal - full flow support - Low priority
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> -        High Availability in IPoIB and SRP
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> -        Bug fixes
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> 3. OSM (new code based on the trunk):
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> -        Partition Manager (Pkey) - Low priority
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> -        Pre-computed routing load from file
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> -        Primitive QoS - As technology preview
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> 4. SDP:
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> -        Beta quality (higher stability)
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> -        Improved latency
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> -        Improved bandwidth of small messages (Naggle algorithm) - done
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> -        Support the backlog parameter in the listen call
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> -        Interoperability with previous SDP implementation
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> -        support sending/receiving out of band data
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> 5. SRP:
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> -        GA quality
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> -        DM (Device Mapper) - for high availability
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> -        Basic failover/failback testing with daemon+srp+XVM/MPP and
> Engenio target
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> 6. IPoIB:
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> -        High availability support using a daemon in user level
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> 7. uDAPL:
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> -        Scalability features needed for Intel MPI
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> -        Going to take the new code from the trunk
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> 8. OSU - MVAPICH:
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> -        Based on 0.97 (+ bug fixes)
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> -        Message coalescing
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> 9. Open MPI:
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> -        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)
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> -        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
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> 10. MPI tests:
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> -        Replace to the new test versions from LLNL, Intel, OSU
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> 11. iSER:
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> -        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)
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> -        Testing more platforms (e.g. ppc64 and ia64)
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> -        Performance improvements
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> -        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.
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> 12. RDS:
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> -        Oracle and SilverStorm should update
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> 13: Management: 
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> -        Madeye utility
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> -        Add saquery tool
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> -        Enhancement to ibnetdiscover tool with grouping function
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> -        New ibutils package:
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> o        Port error counter check
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> o        Port performance counters dump
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> o        Link width and Link Speed check by flag
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> -----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
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> Hello all,
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> We would like to call an OFED v1.1 planning meeting ASAP.  We can use
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> 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?
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> 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:
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> - Support for SLES 9 in general
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> - SRP failover and MPP
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> - SDP usability
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> - RDS usability
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> - UDAPL scalability
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> - High Availability
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> - Additional OS/CPU platforms support for iSER, sync with upstream
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> kernel
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> - Etc
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> Thanks,
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> Sujal  
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Jeff Squyres
Server Virtualization Business Unit
Cisco Systems