[ofa-general] Re: [ewg] OFED March 24 meeting summary on OFED 1.4 plans

Erez Zilber erezz at voltaire.com
Thu Apr 3 06:50:59 PDT 2008


>
> *OFED 1.4:*
> 1. Kernel base: since we target 1.4 release to Sep we target the
> kernel base to be 2.6.27
>     This is a good target, but we may need to stay with 2.6.26 if the
> kernel progress will not be aligned.
>
> 2. Suggestions for new features:
>
>     * NFS-RDMA
>     * Verbs: Reliable Multicast (to be presented at Sonoma)
>     * SDP - Zero copy (There was a question on IPv6 support - seems no
>       one interested for now)
>     * IPoIB - continue with performance enhancements
>     * Xsigo new virtual NIC
>     * New vendor HW support - non was reported so far (IBM and Chelsio
>       - do you have something?)
>     * OpenSM:
>           o Incremental routing
>           o Temporary SA DB - to answer queries and a heavy sweep is done
>           o APM - disjoint paths (?)
>           o MKey manager (?)
>           o Sasha to send more management features
>     * MPI:
>           o Open MPI 1.3
>           o APM support in MPI
>           o mvapich ???
>     * uDAPl
>           o Extensions for new APIs (like XRC) - ?
>           o uDAPL provider for interop between Windows & Linux
>           o 1.2 and 2.0 will stay
>

As I wrote in an earlier discussion (~2 months ago), we plan to add tgt
(SCSI target) with iSCSI over iSER (and TCP of course) support. The git
tree for tgt already exists on the ofa server.

Erez




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