[ofa-general] OFED July 2, meeting summary on next OFED plans

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 13:53, Bob Kossey wrote:
> Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> HP: Full ConnectX support, installation/packaging changes,
> >> Perfmon independent of OpenSM.
> >>     
> >
> > What do you mean by "Perfmon independent of OpenSM" ?
> >
> > -- Hal
> >
> >   
> I interpreted from the exchange below that there is a dependency between
> PerfMgr and OpenSM.  If that is not accurate, or if it will be 
> eliminated, great.

PerfMgr will support the ability to run without the SM/SA function in
OpenSM but with a "third party" SM (meaning any standard (vendor) SM
which is IBA compliant although this will need testing to confirm that
aspect by those vendors/parties interested in this). PerfMgr will,
however, be part of the OpenSM package. I hope this clarifies the
current intent.

-- Hal

> On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 03:24, Eitan Zahavi wrote:
> >/ > On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 14:23, Eitan Zahavi wrote:
> />/ > > In the last months it is the second time I hear people 
> />/ > complaining the 
> />/ > > current monitoring solution in OFA is  integrated with OpenSM.
> />/ > 
> />/ > I must have missed this both times (didn't see this in Mark's 
> />/ > post) and the statement itself is somewhat inaccurate as well.
> /
> >/ Private talks - I hope they will speak up for themselves now...
> /
> Please encourage them to do so.
>  
> >/ > > These people do not use OpenSM but do use OFED.
> />/ > 
> />/ > I'm not sure I'm following what you mean here.
> />/ > 
> />/ > If you mean that some people want to run PerfMgr without the 
> />/ > SM/SA aspects (so that they can run a vendor based SM), that 
> />/ > is the next thing we are adding to the implementation.
> />/ Exactly. OK when is that coming?
> /
> Should be part of OFED 1.3.