[openfabrics-ewg] QoS in opensm will not be part of OFED 1.2

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at mellanox.co.il
Mon Feb 5 07:49:22 PST 2007


> > > > I had an AI to check the QoS status with OSM.
> > > > Conclusions are that QoS support in OpenSM will not be part of OFED 1.2 
> > > > (I updated the plan on the Wiki)
> > > > 
> > > > The reasons for this are:
> > > > 1. Code not ready at code freeze.
> > > > 2. There are technical discussion in the list regarding some 
> > > >    implementation details (e.g. XML or text syntax).
> > > > 3. SPEC is not published by IBTA yet.
> > > 
> > > I think this last reason also applies to the end client QoS changes as
> > > well.
> > 
> > Yes. But the other 2 don't.
> 
> Right but I think that precludes it from being included in OFED right
> now.

Since the code is already included in OFED, moving it out would violate the feature
freeze rules, unless there's an actual bug this would fix.

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MST




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