[ewg] OFA EWG Meeting: Monday, Dec 18th, 2017, 09:00 AM US Pacific Time (12pm EST) - Minutes

[Davis, Arlin R]

Attendees                          Company
Pradeep Kankipati             Broadcom
Robert Woodruff               Intel
Arlin Davis                          Intel
Bill Schmidt                        Intel
Tatyana Nikolova              Intel
Jim Ryan                            OFA
Vladimir Sokolovsky        Mellanox
Rupert Dance                    SW Forge
Ram Amrani                      Cavium


Minutes:



*        Opens

*   Discussion on next major release and targeted kernel version; defer until January

*   Board approval for OFED 4.8.2, IWG/EWG cooperation, interop equipment needs

?  Arlin to contact Susan and get OFED 4.8-2 approval on Board agenda (DONE)

?  Arlin agreed to attend IWG meetings, he will coordinate with Paul Bowden

?  Software Forge has provided equipment, used own budget in the past

?  Going forward we need OFA/IBTA budgeting or more HW vendor donations?

*   Problem with OFED "without dependency" installation option?

?  Can potentially cause operational errors; readme may not be enough warning?

?  Tatyana's particular issue can be resolved by adding another dependency during OFED installation. Work with Vlad to update OFED installation dependencies.

*        OFED 4.8-2

*        RH7.4 and SLES12.3 backport update (base is running fine)

?  Kernel: IB core, mlx4, mlx5, IPoIB, iSER, SRP all working

?  Package updates: rdma_core-v16, perftest 4.1-0.2

*        Known issues:
- SLES12 SP3 compilation fails for: qib (patch submitted but still fails)
- RHEL7.4 compilation fails for: bnxt , qedr (still working/testing patches)

- perftest build issue; Vlad posted patch to ewg mailing list.

*        Bug Status (following bugs are minor; agreed to defer - non blocking for 4.8-2)

?  2643<http://bugs.openfabrics.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2643> - perftest not properly syncing between client and server

?  2661<http://bugs.openfabrics.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2661> - rstream intermittent error: connection refused (stale connection)

*        OFED 4.8-1 RC schedule

?  Still working patches and testing; not likely to hit RC1 this year.

?  Vlad's last day to include patches for a daily build will be Tuesday Dec 19th

?  Please make best effort to get Vlad your fixes early on Tuesday.



Please feel free to correct any omissions.



Regards,



Arlin






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