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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi All,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">On next Monday we will have the first meeting to close OFED 1.3 features and schedule.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">As a preparation I send here the list of features we already reviewed in Sonoma, and other features I see in progress on the general list discussions.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I know this is a long mail :-( but I ask each of the maintainers/customers to review this list and send comments and other requests.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">There are some ULPs that I placed "?" and the owner should review and reply with the plans.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thanks,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Tziporet</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Main New Features</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Base kernel: 2.6.23 (we will start with 2.6.22 but will move to 2.6.23)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Install: </FONT>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Minimize integration effort into OS distribution</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Break the packages RPMs (work with Novell and Redhat)</FONT></LI>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Package: </FONT>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Sources arrangement for the end user (for the labs)</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Reduce compilation warnings</FONT></LI>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">QoS:</FONT>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">OSM</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">CM & CMA</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">ULPs: SDP, SRP, IPoIB, RDS?</FONT></LI>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Core: </FONT>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Updated SA cache</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">User space events registration</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Preparations for IB routers</FONT></LI>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">libibverbs:</FONT>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">New verbs: </FONT></LI>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Scalable Reliable Connected Transport (with Mellanox ConnectX)</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Shared Send Queue</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Reliable Multicast ?</FONT></LI>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Management:</FONT>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Multiple partitions</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">OpenSM</FONT></LI>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">More routing performance improvements</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Even more speedups</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Better packaging/installation</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">“Native” daemon mode</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Performance management</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Quality of Service manager: Based on IBTA annex</FONT></LI>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">More diagnostics - Hal please update</FONT></LI>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">ULPs:</FONT>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">IPoIB: NAPI; CM in GA; Bonding in GA</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">NFS over RDMA integration</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">RDS: RDMA API (using FMRs); GA quality with Oracle 11</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">SDP: Keepalive; Asynch IO (Zero Copy)</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">SRP: HA in GA</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">VNIC: ? Qlogic - please update</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">iSER: ? Voltaire - please update</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">uDAPL - ? Arlin please update</FONT></LI>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">iWARP: (Steve please update if needed)</FONT>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">iwarp-specific verbs</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">iwarp-specific async events</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">API for MPA options (CRC/Markers)</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">API for streaming mode IO (needed for compliant iSER)</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Possibly other ULPs (RDS, SDP, iSER)</FONT></LI>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">MPIs:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Integrate the new MPI releases that are on time for OFED 1.3</FONT>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Jeff - please update about Open MPI</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">DK: Please update regarding MVAPICH and MVAPICH2</FONT></LI>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">OFED 1.3 System Matrix</FONT>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">CPU Arch: X86, x86_64, PPC64, ia64</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">kernel.org: kernel 2.6.23</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Novell: SLES 10; SLES 10 SP1</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Redhat: RHEL 4 (up4 and up5); RHEL 5 (can we drop RHEL4up4 since up6 will probably be out till this release is out?)</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Free distros (Fedora, SuSE Pro, Ubuntu) - basic testing only</FONT></LI>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#800000" SIZE=2 FACE="Bookman Old Style">Tziporet Koren</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#800000" SIZE=2 FACE="Bookman Old Style">Software Director</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Mellanox Technologies</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">mailto: </FONT><A HREF="mailto:tziporet@mellanox.co.il"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">tziporet@mellanox.co.il</FONT></U></A><BR>
<FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Tel +972-4-9097200, ext 380</FONT>
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