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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Hi Arlin,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I am sorry I missed the meeting today.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I agree with Steve, that we should consider kernel 4.16 or later.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Tatyana<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_____replyseparator"></a><b><span style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"> ewg [mailto:ewg-bounces@lists.openfabrics.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Steve Wise<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, March 26, 2018 10:47 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> ewg@lists.openfabrics.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [ewg] OFA EWG "OFED next" discussion<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p>Hey Arlin, I can't make today's call. I'll reply inline below:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 3/15/2018 2:02 PM, Davis, Arlin R wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">All,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I want to start the discussion on “OFED next” requirements while 4.8-2 is finishing up.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I will start the discussion with the following topics, feel free to add and adjust appropriately.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<pre><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Which kernel release? (If there is a strong opinion one versus the other please explain):</span></u><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">- Kernel.org 4.15.8 (stable) </span><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">- Kernel.org 4.16-rc5 (GA most likely early April) </span><o:p></o:p></pre>
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I think we should consider 4.17, which should hit RC1 around 4/15. If we kept our sparse kernel tree refreshed as the RCs progress, it should be doable. And it allows OFED to not lag so far behind upstream releases. My 2 cents...<br>
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Or at least 4.16. I'm not sure why we would consider 4.15.x...<br>
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<pre><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Which distro/backports, do we need to go back 4 years to RH7.0 (2014) and SLES12.0 (2014)?</span></u><o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">- RH 7.5 (beta) - <a href="https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7-beta/html/7.5_release_notes/index">https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7-beta/html/7.5_release_notes/index</a></span><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">- SLES 15 (June 2018) - <a href="https://www.suse.com/releasenotes/x86_64/SUSE-SLES/15/">https://www.suse.com/releasenotes/x86_64/SUSE-SLES/15/</a></span><o:p></o:p></pre>
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I thought we just supported the last 2 releases or something like that?<br>
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<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Library/ulp/drivers to deprecate:</span></u><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">- Xeon Phi</span><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">- ??</span><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Library/ulp/drivers to add: </span></u><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">- Huawei hns</span><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">- ??</span><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Library/ulp/drivers to update:</span></u><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">- rdma-core v17</span><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">- ??</span><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Do we have full support for all in-kernel ulp and driver backports?</span></u><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">- NVMe-oF (currently kernel.org only, no backports)</span><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">- i40iw (currently kernel.org only, no backports)</span><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">- NFS-rdma (currently SLES12.2 and RH7.3 only)</span><o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">If we can all participate and provide feedback we can nail down our OFED-next strategy during our upcoming EWG meeting on March 26<sup>th</sup>.</span><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Thanks,</span><o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Arlin</span><o:p></o:p></pre>
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