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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:maroon'>Another
suggestion for 1.5 <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:maroon'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:maroon'>Implementation
of SA queries for Path Records (using IBTA 1.2.1 ServiceId field) in all OFED
ULPs, especially for MPI<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:maroon'> The
IBTA standard defines that the proper way to establish a connection is to get a
PathRecord from the SM/SA and use it to define all the attributes of the
communication path. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><font size=2 color=maroon
face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";
color:maroon'>Ideally the IBTA CM should then be used to establish the
connection and QPs as well.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><font size=2 color=maroon
face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";
color:maroon'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><font size=2 color=maroon
face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";
color:maroon'>At present, openmpi, mvapich1 and mvapich2 do not use
PathRecords, but instead hard code attributes like the PKey, SL, etc. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in'><font size=2
color=maroon face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Comic Sans MS";color:maroon'>In some cases these hardcoded values can be
overridden by configurable values such as PKey and SL, but such values must be
uniform across all connections and must be provided per job (which can be error
prone/tedious).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:maroon'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:maroon'> At
present opensm supports PKeys and SLs, however MPI cannot easily use these
features. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in'><font size=2
color=maroon face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Comic Sans MS";color:maroon'>Other features, such as lash routing, in opensm
do not work properly with MPI because the SL must be uniform across all
connections, but for lash it will vary per route.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:maroon'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><font size=2 color=maroon
face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";
color:maroon'>Additionally, applications which do not use PathRecords will have
difficulties with advanced features like IB routing, partitioning, etc. All of
which are available or being worked on in opensm.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:maroon'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
ewg-bounces@lists.openfabrics.org [mailto:ewg-bounces@lists.openfabrics.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Tziporet Koren<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, January 05, 2009
1:00 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> ewg@lists.openfabrics.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> general@lists.openfabrics.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [ewg] Agenda for the OFED
meeting today (Jan 5, 09)</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Hello
all,</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I
hope we all had nice holidays and vacations, and now it’s the time to get back
to business.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Agenda
for OFED meeting today:</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>1.
Conclusions from OFED 1.4 release: Open discussion</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>2.
Do we wish to have OFED 1.4.: Please send pros & cons before the meeting</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>3.
OFED 1.5: Schedule and features.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>This
is what we presented in SC08 about 1.5:</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Preliminary
Schedule:</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Feature Freeze: 3/20/09</span></font><o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
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<ul type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Alpha Release: 3/20/09</span></font><o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
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<ul type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Beta Release: 4/20/09</span></font><o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
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<ul type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>RC1: 5/5/09</span></font><o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
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<ul type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>RC2-RCx: About every 2 weeks as needed</span></font><o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
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<ul type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Release: June 2009</span></font><o:p></o:p></li>
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<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Features:</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Kernel.org: 2.6.28 and 2.6.29</span></font><o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
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<ul type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Multiple Event Queues to support Multi-core CPUs</span></font><o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
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<ul type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>NFS/RDMA</span></font> <font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>–</span></font><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> GA </span></font><o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
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<ul type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>RDS support for iWARP</span></font><o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
</div>
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<ul type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>OpenMPI 1.3</span></font><o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
</div>
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<ul type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Add support/backports for RedHat EL 5.3 and EL
4.8, SLES 11</span></font><o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
</div>
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<ul type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Support for Mellanox vNIC (EoIB) and FCoIB with
BridgeX device</span></font><o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
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<ul type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>more TBD…</span></font><o:p></o:p></li>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>We
also presented the OS matrix but I suggest we will close this in the next
meeting.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>My
proposal:</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<ul type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Have the release in July and not June - so we
will have more time for development</span></font><o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
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<ul type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Stick to one kernel version base and not change
in the middle since we saw that changing the kernel base caused a delay.<br>
We need to decide in the meeting if it is 2.6.29 or we should wait for
2.6.30.</span></font><o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
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<ul type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Add IB over Eth - this is similar to iWARP but
more like IB (e.g. including UD), and can work over ConnectX.</span></font><o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Please
send your suggestions to the list before the meeting if possible</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Tziporet</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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