[ewg] OFA EWG Meeting: Monday, March 14, 2016, 09:00 AM US Pacific Time (12pm EST) - Minutes

Davis, Arlin R arlin.r.davis at intel.com
Mon Mar 14 14:49:59 PDT 2016


Attendees                          Company                            2/29/16 3/14/16
Pradeep Kankipati            Avago                                                                X
Chuong Vuong                  Avago
Steve Wise                         Chelsio                                         X
Dwip Banerjee                   IBM                                      X                X
David Dai                            IBM                                     X                            X
Arlin Davis                              Intel                                         X                    X
Tom Elken                          Intel                                     X
Tatyana Nikolova              Intel                                     X
Jim Ryan                            Intel                                     X
Robert Woodruff              Intel                                     X                           X
Vladimir Sokolovsky         Mellanox                             X                           X
Jeff Becker                         NASA                                   X
Rupert Dance                    Software Forge                   X                          X
John Jolly                           SUSE


Agenda:

*        Opens

*        OFED 3.18-2 status

*        User Packages

*        Bug status

*        Release Schedule



Meeting Details:



*        Opens - Woody to discuss EWG presentation for OFA conference

o   What to say about next major release support?

?  Will say 4.6, possibly 4.7 depending on feature missed in 4.6

*    Important features: RoCEE v2, OmniPath, iWARP driver, Mellanox, NVMeoF

?  Vlad to provide list of Mellanox features moving upstream to help with decision on 4.6 vs 4.7

o   Can OFED begin builds/testing of kernel.org releases at RC levels for addition test coverage?

?  Yes, early OFED daily builds can tag RC versions of kernel.org.

?  We do need commits from maintainers to support early build/testing

o   Woody will send out slide set for quick review during March 28th EWG meeting.



*        OFED 3.18-2 Status:

o   Latest Build: http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-3.18-2-daily/OFED-3.18-2-20160313-0128.tgz

*    mlx4_en build fixes

*    Chelsio backports included

*    IPoIB Bug fix - 2561

o   Distro and feature list (everything in 3.18-1 plus RH 7.2 and SLES 12 SP1)

?  Intel will verify latest package fixes the build issues seen on various distros.

?  SLES 12 SP1 - no issues reported

?  RH 7.2 -

*    Chelsio - done, in latest build.

*    Avago - 3.18-1 works, 3.18-2 had issues, sent details to Vlad?



*        User Packages: http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/WorkGroups/ewg/OFED_User_Package_Status/2016/OFED-User-Package-Status-2016-03-13.pdf

o   Do we want to pull in the latest libibverbs-1.2.0 from Doug or keep existing version?

?  Vlad will talk with Doug to clarify impact

o   New PSM library still coming - Arlin will check with Tom

o   New packages: libfabric-1.2.0, fabtest-1.2.0, libcxgb4-1.3.6, mstflint-4.3.0, perftest-3.0-0.16, dapl-2.1.8



*        Bug Status: http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/WorkGroups/ewg/OFED_Bugs/2016/OFED-3.1x-Bug-Status-2016-03-13.pdf

o   Bugzilla back up and running. Please note that email notification is suspect.

o   New NFSoRDMA bug 2588

o   Vlad to update 2574 with "build dependency check will not work; request new options from CC list"

o   Arlin to work with Sean on 2586, 2587

o   Rupert to talk with Tatyanna about iWARP but 2583

o   Rupert to talk with Jeff about NFS bugs 2580, 2588

o   Rupert will update bugs per discussions.



*        Timelines for 3.18-2 release:

o   Latest ETA for RC1 - March 28th

o   Latest ETA for GA -  April-May timeframe





Next Meeting: March 28th



Monday, March 28, 2016, 09:00 AM US Pacific Time

916-356-2663, 8-356-2663, Bridge: 3, Passcode: 9663545



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Please send any omissions/corrections.



Thanks Everyone!



Arlin



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