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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>OFED July 16 meeting summary</b><br>
</font></p>
<p><b><font face="Arial" size="2">1. Merge the OFED 1.2.1 release with
OFED 1.2.c release in August.</font> </b><br>
</p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">There was a long discussion on pros
& cons regarding merging the two releases.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">Pros:<br>
- Everybody will be focused on the same release<br>
- All user space libs (except for the new libmlx4) are the same<br>
- Reduce QA efforts<br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">Cons:<br>
- The kernel was changed to 2.6.22 based and this can cause instability.<br>
- Harder to distinguish what are the differences between 1.2 to 1.2.c.
(since its not only few patches)<br>
- 1.2.c release was aimed for ConnectX support only. If we lump the two
releases together it may slow the convergence of this release.<br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">In addition there is a need to check
with IBM and Chelsio, who actually asked for the 1.2.1 release, if this
suites them.<br>
Steve agreed to test 1.2.c to see if its OK with his fixes.<br>
Need a respond from IBM too. (BTW - no patches from IBM were sent so
far.)<br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">Decision: No decision was taken.<br>
I suggest we stay with two different branches for now. <br>
After more people will test 1.2.c and see if its stable enough we can
decide not to do 1.2.1 <br>
</font></p>
<p><b><font face="Arial" size="2">2. Agree on OFED 1.3 schedule:</font>
<br>
</b>The suggested schedule:<b><br>
</b> <font face="Arial" size="2">* Feature freeze - Sep 4</font>
<br>
<font face="Arial" size="2">* Alpha release - Sep 10</font> <br>
<font face="Arial" size="2">* Beta release - Sep 25</font> <br>
<font face="Arial" size="2">* RC1 - Oct 16</font> <br>
<font face="Arial" size="2">* RC2 - Oct 30</font> <br>
<font face="Arial" size="2">* RC3 - Nov 8 (assuming many of us
are at SC07 on the week of Nov 11)</font> <br>
<font face="Arial" size="2">* RC4 - Nov 20</font> <br>
<font face="Arial" size="2">* GA release - Nov 30 (or first
week of Dec)</font> <br>
</p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">Discussion:<br>
- Due to the 1.2.c release the schedule seems very tight.<br>
- Since 1.2.c progress only the kernel, many user level features that
are already done are not exposed to customers in OFED release.<br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">Decision: Revisit the schedule on
September according to the "must have" features readiness.<br>
</font></p>
<p><b><font face="Arial" size="2">3. Review OFED 1.3 features list:</font>
<br>
<font face="Arial" size="2"></font></b></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">There was an agreement on the must have
features, except QoS that should be defined after IBTA SPEC is published<br>
</font><font face="Arial" size="2">We have not reviewed the list of
features thoroughly. Each company should review the features and send
comments to the list.</font><br>
</p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">Must have general features:</font> <br>
<font face="Arial" size="2">====================</font> </p>
<ul>
<li><font face="Arial" size="2">Kernel base on 2.6.23 (all new
features that will be part of this kernel will be included in OFED 1.3)</font>
</li>
<li><font face="Arial" size="2">Install: </font>
<ul>
<li><font face="Arial" size="2">Break the packages RPMs (work
with Novell and Redhat) to minimize integration effort into OS
distribution</font> </li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><font face="Arial" size="2">Package: </font>
<ul>
<li><font face="Arial" size="2">Sources arrangement for the end
user (for the labs)</font> </li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><font face="Arial" size="2">New HCAs & RNICs:</font>
<ul>
<li><font face="Arial" size="2">ConnectX support</font> </li>
<li><font size="2"><font face="Arial">Neteffect support</font></font><br>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><font face="Arial" size="2">QoS: OSM, CM, CMA, ULPs (IPoIB, SDP,
SRP)</font> <br>
</li>
</ul>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">Other features (must have marked with *)</font>
<br>
<font face="Arial" size="2">==============================</font> </p>
<ul>
<li><font face="Arial" size="2">libibverbs: New verbs: </font>
<ul>
<li><font face="Arial" size="2">Scalable Reliable Connected
Transport (with Mellanox ConnectX)*</font> </li>
<li><font face="Arial" size="2">Reliable Multicast?</font> <br>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">ULPs:</font> </p>
<ul>
<li><font face="Arial" size="2">IPoIB: </font>
<ul>
<li><font face="Arial" size="2">Performance improvements (those
that will be stable on time)</font> </li>
<li><font face="Arial" size="2">NAPI - done</font> </li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><font face="Arial" size="2">SDP:</font>
<ul>
<li><font face="Arial" size="2">* Keepalive</font> </li>
<li><font face="Arial" size="2">* AIO</font> </li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><font face="Arial" size="2">uDAPL:</font>
<ul>
<li><font face="Arial" size="2">DAT 2.0 support with IB
extensions for immediate data, atomics; </font>
</li>
<li><font face="Arial" size="2">Add extensions for new verbs
(SRCT,RM)</font> </li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><font face="Arial" size="2">VNIC: </font>
<ul>
<li><font face="Arial" size="2">GA quality. Not a technology
preview version anymore.</font> </li>
<li><font face="Arial" size="2">Added support for QLogic EVIC (10
Gbps Infiniband-to-Ethernet gateway) - in GA</font> </li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><font face="Arial" size="2">RDS: RDMA API (using FMRs); GA
quality with Oracle 11</font> </li>
<li><font face="Arial" size="2">NFSoRDMA integration - pending we
have a maintainer</font> <br>
</li>
<li><font face="Arial" size="2">Management:</font>
<ul>
<li><font face="Arial" size="2">* Multiple partitions via
libibumad</font> </li>
<li><font face="Arial" size="2">OpenSM</font>
<ul>
<li><font face="Arial" size="2">More routing performance
improvements - done</font> </li>
<li><font face="Arial" size="2">Even more speedups - done</font>
</li>
<li><font face="Arial" size="2">Better packaging/installation
- done</font> </li>
<li><font face="Arial" size="2">“Native” daemon mode - done</font>
</li>
<li><font face="Arial" size="2">* Performance management</font>
</li>
<li><font face="Arial" size="2">* Quality of Service manager:
Based on IBTA annex</font> </li>
<li><font face="Arial" size="2">Enhancements for fat tree
routing (non pure tree support) - done</font> </li>
<li><font face="Arial" size="2">More console commands and
telnet access to console - done</font> </li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><font face="Arial" size="2">More diagnostics</font>
<ul>
<li><font face="Arial" size="2">ibidsverify.pl: validate LIDs
and GUIDs in subnet - done</font> </li>
<li><font face="Arial" size="2">Updated ibnetdiscover format
with link width and speed, and GUIDs - done</font> </li>
<li><font face="Arial" size="2">ibnetdiscover grouping
support for new Voltaire chassis - done</font> </li>
<li><font face="Arial" size="2">diag updates for IB router
support - done</font> </li>
<li><font face="Arial" size="2">iblinkinfo.pl: Support peer
port link width and speed validation - done</font> </li>
<li><font face="Arial" size="2">ibdatacounters: Add script
and man page for subnet wide data counters saquery enhancements - done</font>
<br>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><font face="Arial" size="2">iWARP:</font>
<ul>
<li><font face="Arial" size="2">* Chelsio: Get to GA level</font>
</li>
<li><font face="Arial" size="2">NetEffect: Get the drivers into
OFED</font> <br>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
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