[openib-general] InfiniBand 2.6.17 merge plans

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 14:56, Roland Dreier wrote:
> As we enter the second week of the 2.6.17 merge window, I thought it
> might be helpful to give an update on what I'm thinking about the
> remaining pending pieces.  This is really to stimulate discussion --
> if there's something that you think really should (or shouldn't) be
> merged, let me know.
> 
> Of course bug fixes are always welcome and can be merged pretty much
> any time -- that's the whole point of the stabilization period after
> the merge window.
> 
>  * PathScale ipath driver.  In my git tree at
> 
>    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband.git ipath
> 
>    There is still ia64 build breakage and a lot of sparse endian
>    annotations to clean up before it's mergeable.  Also, there are two
>    issues I still see:
> 
>    - Working around the IB midlayer SMA (subnet management agent) /
>      implementation with a character device when ib_mad isn't loaded.
>      Maybe I'm off-base here objecting to this.  Hal and Sean, as the
>      ib_mad guys, I'd be especially interested in your opinion of this.
> 
>    - The driver depends on 64BIT && PCI_MSI, and is basically
>      x86_64-only for practical purposes.  I think this is OK as far as
>      a merge goes, but it would be nice to be able to use a PCIe
>      device on any system with PCIe slots...
> 
>  * RDMA CM.  In my git tree at
> 
>    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband.git rdma_cm
> 
>    I think this is OK to merge, but I don't see much pull to get it in
>    right now.  There are three consumers on the horizon:
> 
>    - userspace RDMA CM, which exports the abstraction to userspace.
>      The feeling is that this interface needs more time to mature.
> 
>    - NFS/RDMA.  Not ready to merge right now.
> 
>    - iSER.  Maybe ready to merge -- I haven't heard anything recently.
> 
>    My feeling is that without someone making a case for why this
>    should go in now, I'm going to hold off.
> 
>  * IPoIB tunables.  This is probably OK but I haven't seen any patches
>    yet, so we're running out time.
> 
>  * SRP FMRs.  I have a patch that I'm pretty happy with now, so I
>    think this will go in.  This will need a lot of testing, or we may
>    have to turn it off by default for 2.6.17 final
> 
> So if you care about any of this, let me know what you think.  And if
> there's something not on this list and not in
> 
>     git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband.git for-2.6.17
> 
> please make sure I know about it, or it won't get merged.

There is a pending change on additional management classes to be
supported for RMPP which should go upstream.

-- Hal

> Thanks,
>   Roland
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