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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Pramod Srivatsa (psrivats)
<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, March 17, 2006 2:42 PM<BR><B>To:</B> 'Matters, Todd';
'Sujal Das'; Kamen Bodourov (kbodouro); Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen); Roland
Dreier (rdreier); 'Vu Pham'; Shawn Hansen (shahanse); 'Ishai Rabinovitz'; Jeff
Silberman (jsilberm)<BR><B>Cc:</B> 'Aviram Gutman'; Tziporet
Koren<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: IBCG SRP Meeting - Minutes from
3/13<BR><B>Importance:</B> High<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>Folks,<BR><BR>Please see the list below for the tasks that we
envision need to be completed for SRP in IBCG1.0. I also list below, the work
that Cisco is planning to do for this release. (The individuals, other than
Roland, working from Cisco are new to the code, and will be able to
assist in the areas mentioned for this release.)</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>Please let us know which items your team will work on for the
first release and which targets you will be testing against. Items 2-4 will
require multiple people's effort. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>Please mail if there are any tasks missing to integrate into the
release (packaging work etc.)</FONT><BR><BR><FONT size=2><STRONG>Development
Tasks - Code Freeze April 7th:</STRONG><BR>1. Tunable parameters framework<BR>2.
Design verification - [Cisco]<BR>3. Bug fixing - [Cisco]<BR>4. Unit
Testing on various servers and distributions / kernels (PCI-x and
PCIe) - [Cisco]<BR>5. FMR support: [Vu / Roland]<BR>6. [Stretch goal] Dynamic
add/remove target<BR><BR><STRONG>Targets:</STRONG><BR>1. Cisco has Engenio
storage<BR>2. AI: Cisco to get DataDirect IB-attached
storage<BR><BR><STRONG>Testing Effort:</STRONG><BR>1. Open Action Item: Test
plan for negative testing - [Cisco]</FONT></P>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana color=#0000ff size=2>Regards,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana color=#0000ff size=2>Pramod</FONT></DIV>
<P><FONT size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: Pramod Srivatsa
(psrivats)<BR>Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 7:08 PM<BR>To: 'Matters, Todd';
'Sujal Das'; Kamen Bodourov (kbodouro); Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen); Roland
Dreier (rdreier); 'Vu Pham'; Shawn Hansen (shahanse); 'Ishai Rabinovitz'; Jeff
Silberman (jsilberm)<BR>Cc: 'Aviram Gutman'<BR>Subject: RE: IBCG SRP Meeting -
Minutes from 3/13<BR><BR>Folks,<BR><BR>I think we have all converged on option
b.<BR><BR>The next step is to determine the specific tasks, owners and timelines
for delivery. I will send out a list for review and setup a meeting on monday to
close out these items.<BR><BR>To address a couple of items that have been
brought up in this thread:<BR><BR>Aviram - dynamic detection is not in option b.
This feature is highly desired, but the consensus on the last call was that this
feature would put us out of the april code freeze timeframe.<BR><BR>Sujal - same
goes for working with the sst and cisco
gws.<BR><BR>-pramod<BR><BR> -----Original Message-----<BR>From:
Matters, Todd [</FONT><A href="mailto:tmatters@silverstorm.com"><FONT
size=2>mailto:tmatters@silverstorm.com</FONT></A><FONT
size=2>]<BR>Sent: Wed Mar 15 14:46:14
2006<BR>To: Sujal Das; Pramod Srivatsa (psrivats); Kamen
Bodourov (kbodouro); Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen); Roland Dreier (rdreier); Vu
Pham; Shawn Hansen (shahanse); Ishai Rabinovitz; Jeff Silberman
(jsilberm)<BR>Cc: Aviram
Gutman<BR>Subject: RE: IBCG SRP
Meeting - Minutes from 3/13<BR><BR>I'm OK with option B. I have a fulltime
person starting next week or the week after with an initial focus on IBCG
SRP. But I'm not sure how much he'll be able to contribute in this
timeframe as it's a new person and will have a learning
curve.<BR><BR><BR><BR>Todd<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>______________________<BR><BR>Todd
A. Matters<BR><BR>SilverStorm
Technologies<BR><BR>(610)233-4809<BR><BR><BR><BR>________________________________<BR><BR>From:
Sujal Das [</FONT><A href="mailto:Sujal@Mellanox.com"><FONT
size=2>mailto:Sujal@Mellanox.com</FONT></A><FONT size=2>]<BR>Sent: Wednesday,
March 15, 2006 2:24 PM<BR>To: Pramod Srivatsa (psrivats); Kamen Bodourov
(kbodouro); Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen); Roland Dreier (rdreier); Vu Pham;
Matters, Todd; Shawn Hansen (shahanse); Ishai Rabinovitz; Jeff Silberman
(jsilberm)<BR>Cc: Aviram Gutman<BR>Subject: RE: IBCG SRP Meeting - Minutes from
3/13<BR><BR><BR><BR>Hi all,<BR><BR><BR><BR>We have to find a way to release SRP
comprising of at least option B on the April 30th release date. Let us
know how we can help. With 3 companies applying resources on this critical
ULP, I hope we can make it
happen.<BR><BR><BR><BR>-Sujal<BR><BR>________________________________<BR><BR>From:
Pramod Srivatsa (psrivats) [</FONT><A href="mailto:psrivats@cisco.com"><FONT
size=2>mailto:psrivats@cisco.com</FONT></A><FONT size=2>]<BR>Sent: Monday, March
13, 2006 2:39 PM<BR>To: Kamen Bodourov (kbodouro); Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen);
Roland Dreier (rdreier); Vu Pham; Sujal Das; tmatters@silverstorm.com; Shawn
Hansen (shahanse); Ishai Rabinovitz; Jeff Silberman (jsilberm)<BR>Subject: IBCG
SRP Meeting - Minutes from 3/13<BR><BR><BR><BR>Folks,<BR><BR><BR><BR>Minutes
from our IBCG-SRP discussion below. The next steps are for each company to
specify which of the three implementation options below would be preferred.
Please reply back with your preference. Once we have consensus, we will meet
next week to identify the specific development tasks and the owners of each
task.<BR><BR><BR><BR>Implementation Options:<BR><BR>A. SRP driver is technology
preview (No new features, some negative testing, date-driven)<BR><BR>B. SRP
driver is "add-on" for HPC only (negative testing on single path, static
configuration, minimal tunable parameters - framework, no multipathing, no
dynamic detection of targets, no support for Cisco and SST FCGWs)<BR><BR>C. SRP
driver is "add-on" for HPC and Enterprise (extensive negative testing,
multipathing support, dynamic target detection, support for SST and Cisco
FCGWs)<BR><BR><BR><BR>Mellanox / Vu:<BR><BR>- FMR in: Patch already submitted
(Provide evidence that FMR is useful; Vu will talk to Roland)<BR><BR>- Tunable
parameters: Framework needed as well ad decide which parameters in the first
release<BR><BR>- SRP bootup in InitRD: How to do this? Moderate work (2 weeks);
Why would you want to do this without BoIB-SRP support?<BR><BR>- SRP detect
added/removed targets in the fabric: Moderate work (Is this in the low level
driver?) (3-4 weeks for the SRP work.)<BR><BR>- Testing with commercial
multipathing drivers<BR><BR><BR><BR>SilverStorm / Todd:<BR><BR>- IBCG is not
interoperable with SST FCGW (from user management<BR>perspective)<BR><BR>-
Configuration file is required on the host file for interop with SST
FCGW<BR><BR>- Vu's list should be good for IB attached storage<BR><BR>- Is it OK
to rely on 3rd party packages for failover?<BR><BR><BR><BR>Cisco /
Kamen:<BR><BR>- IBCG SRP driver interoperability status with Cisco FCGW is TBD
(Roland has done some basic tests)<BR><BR>- Basic level of tunable
parameters<BR><BR>- Improve user level management<BR><BR>- Negative testing
needed<BR><BR><BR><BR>Please mail with comments or
questions.<BR><BR>Regards,<BR><BR>-Pramod<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>=======================<BR><BR>Pramod
Srivatsa<BR><BR>Product Manager, SVBU<BR><BR>M: 408.203.6543<BR><BR>E:
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