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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi All,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">We have our OFED synch meeting today at 9am PST.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Agenda:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">1. Merge the OFED 1.2.1 release with OFED 1.2.c release in August.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">2. Agree on OFED 1.3 schedule:</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">* Feature freeze - Sep 4</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">* Alpha release - Sep 10</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">* Beta release - Sep 25</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">* RC1 - Oct 16</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">* RC2 - Oct 30</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">* RC3 - Nov 8 (assuming many of us are at SC07 on the week of Nov 11)</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">* RC4 - Nov 20</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">* GA release - Nov 30 (or first week of Dec)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">3. Review OFED 1.3 features list:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">In last meeting we decided that the schedule is one of the most important parameters in OFED 1.3.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thus I divided the features for two categories:</FONT>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">"must have" features - features that must be ready for the release (marked with *)</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">"optional" features - features that can be included in the release in case they are ready according to the schedule</FONT></LI>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Must have general features:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">====================</FONT>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Kernel base on 2.6.23 (all new features that will be part of this kernel will be included in OFED 1.3)</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Install: </FONT></LI>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Break the packages RPMs (work with Novell and Redhat) to minimize integration effort into OS distribution</FONT></LI>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Package: </FONT></LI>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Sources arrangement for the end user (for the labs)</FONT></LI>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">New HCAs & RNICs:</FONT></LI>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">ConnectX support</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Any other new HW?</FONT></LI>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">QoS: OSM, CM, CMA, ULPs (IPoIB, SDP, SRP)</FONT></LI>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Other features (must have marked with *)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">==============================</FONT>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">libibverbs: 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">Reliable Multicast?</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: </FONT></LI>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Performance improvements (those that will be stable on time)</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">NAPI - done</FONT></LI>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">SDP:</FONT></LI>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">* Keepalive</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">* AIO</FONT></LI>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">uDAPL:</FONT></LI>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">DAT 2.0 support with IB extensions for immediate data, atomics; </FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Add extensions for new verbs (SRCT,RM)</FONT></LI>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">VNIC: </FONT></LI>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">GA quality. Not a technology preview version anymore.</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Added support for QLogic EVIC (10 Gbps Infiniband-to-Ethernet gateway) - in GA</FONT></LI>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">RDS: RDMA API (using FMRs); GA quality with Oracle 11</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">NFSoRDMA integration - pending we have a maintainer</FONT></LI>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Management:</FONT></LI>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">* Multiple partitions via libibumad</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 - done</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Even more speedups - done</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Better packaging/installation - done</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">“Native” daemon mode - done</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>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Enhancements for fat tree routing (non pure tree support) - done</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">More console commands and telnet access to console - done</FONT></LI>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">More diagnostics</FONT></LI>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">ibidsverify.pl: validate LIDs and GUIDs in subnet - done</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Updated ibnetdiscover format with link width and speed, and GUIDs - done</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">ibnetdiscover grouping support for new Voltaire chassis - done</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">diag updates for IB router support - done</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">iblinkinfo.pl: Support peer port link width and speed validation - done</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">ibdatacounters: Add script and man page for subnet wide data counters saquery enhancements - done</FONT></LI>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">iWARP:</FONT></LI>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">* Chelsio: Get to GA level</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">NetEffect: Get the drivers into OFED</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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