[ewg] OFA EWG Meeting: Monday, Mar 27, 2017, 09:00 AM US Pacific Time (12pm EST) - Meeting Cancelled

[Coulter, Susan K]

If this helps, it is from 3/21 … to my knowledge the most recent summary sent by Doug Ledford.

Updates from version 12:

	• Minor improvements to qedr provider
	• Add libpvrdma provider for VMWare rdma virt devices
	• Improved RoCE AH creation
	• Packet Pacing support
	• Various github build system improvements
	• Updates to Debian and Red Hat packaging
	• Timestamp support in mlx4 provider
	• Make the libibverbs/provider interface private
	• Clean up headers for improved multi-arch support
	• Add Verbs Direct support for mlx5 provider
	• Implement new, more specific multi-arch barrier methods
	• Update all providers to the modern registration method and remove
ibv_register_driver entirely
	• Switch the code to use gcc endian conversion functions
	• Fix an endianness issue in srp_daemon
	• Implement a new release mechanism that should create more distro
friendly tarballs based on the common release tagging format
	• Updates to make it possible to run sparse on rdma-core
	• Fixes found by running sparse on rdma-core
	• Fixes to travis tarball upload script
	• Fix to broken cmake test


> On Apr 6, 2017, at 12:31 PM, Adit Ranadive <aditr at vmware.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 10:22:26PM +0000, Davis, Arlin R wrote:
>> We need to finalize the changes going into RC2. Can I get some feedback regarding moving to rdma-core v13 or staying with v12? Moving to rdma-core v13 would make vmw_pvrdma inclusion easier but would require VMware to pull back their changes pushed into RC1.
>> 
>> Comments?
>> 
> 
> I'm not opposed to rolling back the RC1 changes for vmw_pvrdma. There are
> fairly trivial. However, you would have find out the various differences
> between rdma-core-12 and 13, f.e. bug fixes, functionality changes, etc.
> and how those impact the existing providers.
> 
> The other thing I wanted to point out was regarding the Qlogic provider -
> rdma-core-12 added them as a user space provider but there isnt a kernel 
> driver in OFED 4.8. I believe they were added as a provider in 4.9 kernel.
> Not sure, if that is an issue for you guys.
> 
> Thanks,
> Adit
> 
> 
> 
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