[ofa-general] Re: [ewg] OFED March 24 meeting summary on OFED 1.4 plans

[Hal Rosenstock]

CQ,

On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 14:27 +0000, Tang, Changqing wrote:
> Can we address multiple-fabrics (physically separated) support ?

Can you elaborate on what you mean by "physically separated" ?

-- Hal

> 
> 
> --CQ Tang
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: general-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org
> > [mailto:general-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org] On Behalf Of
> > Erez Zilber
> > Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 8:51 AM
> > To: Tziporet Koren
> > Cc: ewg at lists.openfabrics.org; general at lists.openfabrics.org
> > Subject: [ofa-general] Re: [ewg] OFED March 24 meeting
> > summary on OFED 1.4 plans
> >
> > >
> > > *OFED 1.4:*
> > > 1. Kernel base: since we target 1.4 release to Sep we target the
> > > kernel base to be 2.6.27
> > >     This is a good target, but we may need to stay with
> > 2.6.26 if the
> > > kernel progress will not be aligned.
> > >
> > > 2. Suggestions for new features:
> > >
> > >     * NFS-RDMA
> > >     * Verbs: Reliable Multicast (to be presented at Sonoma)
> > >     * SDP - Zero copy (There was a question on IPv6 support
> > - seems no
> > >       one interested for now)
> > >     * IPoIB - continue with performance enhancements
> > >     * Xsigo new virtual NIC
> > >     * New vendor HW support - non was reported so far (IBM
> > and Chelsio
> > >       - do you have something?)
> > >     * OpenSM:
> > >           o Incremental routing
> > >           o Temporary SA DB - to answer queries and a heavy
> > sweep is done
> > >           o APM - disjoint paths (?)
> > >           o MKey manager (?)
> > >           o Sasha to send more management features
> > >     * MPI:
> > >           o Open MPI 1.3
> > >           o APM support in MPI
> > >           o mvapich ???
> > >     * uDAPl
> > >           o Extensions for new APIs (like XRC) - ?
> > >           o uDAPL provider for interop between Windows & Linux
> > >           o 1.2 and 2.0 will stay
> > >
> >
> > As I wrote in an earlier discussion (~2 months ago), we plan
> > to add tgt (SCSI target) with iSCSI over iSER (and TCP of
> > course) support. The git tree for tgt already exists on the
> > ofa server.
> >
> > Erez
> >
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