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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=909075718-26022009><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Bill, since the bug was submitted as P3 and
normal,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=909075718-26022009><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>rather than P1 as critical or blocker, it was probably
overlooked as something</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=909075718-26022009><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>that had to be fixed in 1.4. I changed the bug to a blocker
P1 bug for OFED 1.4.1,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=909075718-26022009><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>and thus should show up on the bug tracking list that gets
reviewed in the EWG. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=909075718-26022009><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=909075718-26022009><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>In addition to enterring the bug into bugzilla, people may
also want to send</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=909075718-26022009><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>an email to the maintaner for blocker bugs, so that they
know it needs quick </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=909075718-26022009><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>attention. It is asigned to Jeff Becker, the NFS/RDMA
maintainer. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=909075718-26022009><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>I know that there were some issues with backports for
NFS/RDMA in 1.4 and</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=909075718-26022009><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>believe he is trying to get these fixed for OFED
1.4.1.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=909075718-26022009><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>woody</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Bill Boas
[mailto:Bill.Boas@openfabrics.org] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, February 26, 2009
10:06 AM<BR><B>To:</B> general@lists.openfabrics.org; ewg@lists.openfabrics.org;
wwg@lists.openfabrics.org<BR><B>Cc:</B> 'Peter Jones'; 'Brian J. Murrell';
'Makia Minich'; Bryon.Neitzel@Sun.COM<BR><B>Subject:</B> Sun is asking for a
response on Bug No.s 1522, 1523<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dear OFA
Maintainers:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Sun has contacted me
about these bugs and is asking for priority action to get fixes for them. See
the thread below.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I’m sending this email
to 3 OFA lists because Sun having to contact the Alliance this way raises many
questions about how a vendor like Sun or a customer like, say, a Wall St bank
gets bugs fixed and where do we, the OFA, publish this
information?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">And if we agree that an
OFA maintainer is the right person to fix the bug how does that maintainer learn
that and how do they respond?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Thank you for
responding to this email and to the Sun team using OFED in their
products.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Bill.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoAutoSig><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=navy size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: navy">Bill Boas<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoAutoSig><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=navy size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: navy">Executive Director and Vice
Chair<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoAutoSig><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=navy size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: navy">OpenFabrics <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Alliance</st1:place></st1:City><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoAutoSig><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=navy size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: navy">510-375-8840<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoAutoSig><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=navy size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: navy"><A
href="mailto:Bill.Boas@openfabrics.org">Bill.Boas@openfabrics.org</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoAutoSig><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=navy size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: navy">www.openfabrics.org<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">From:</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">
Bryon.Neitzel@Sun.COM [mailto:Bryon.Neitzel@Sun.COM] <BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Wednesday, February 25, 2009 12:20
PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Bill Boas<BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc:</SPAN></B> Peter Jones; Brian J. Murrell;
<st1:PersonName w:st="on">Makia Minich</st1:PersonName><BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Fwd: OFED 1.4 for NHM
chips</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Hi Bill,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">I found the bug numbers for the Lustre build issues
against OFED 1.4.0 that I mentioned
yesterday.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Is there any way to bump up the priority on these? This
is blocking our ability to deliver our new Vayu (Nehalem+QDR) hardware to our
customers, since Mellanox says they'll only support OFED 1.4 with QDR
hardware.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Bryon<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Begin forwarded
message:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR><BR><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Helvetica color=black size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica">From:
</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT face=Helvetica size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica">"Brian J. Murrell" <<A
href="mailto:Brian.Murrell@Sun.COM">Brian.Murrell@Sun.COM</A>></SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Helvetica color=black size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica">Date:
</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT face=Helvetica size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica">February 25, 2009 1:06:49 PM
MST</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Helvetica color=black size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica">To:
</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT face=Helvetica size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica">Bryon Neitzel <<A
href="mailto:Bryon.Neitzel@Sun.COM">Bryon.Neitzel@Sun.COM</A>></SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Helvetica color=black size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica">Cc:
</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT face=Helvetica size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica">Peter Jones <<A
href="mailto:Peter.A.Jones@Sun.COM">Peter.A.Jones@Sun.COM</A>></SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Helvetica color=black size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica">Subject:
</SPAN></FONT></B><B><FONT face=Helvetica size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica">Re: OFED 1.4
for NHM chips</SPAN></FONT></B><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 12:59 -0700, Bryon Neitzel
wrote:<BR><BR><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Hi Brian, what is the website where these
OFED bugs were filed? <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT><BR><A
href="https://bugs.openfabrics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1522">https://bugs.openfabrics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1522</A><BR>https://bugs.openfabrics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1523<BR><BR><BR><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Bill Boas tried to find any OFED bugs opened by Sun
yesterday,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR>Yeah. I opened them a number of
days ago.<BR><BR>Not sure if it matters to anyone, but IMHO, 1523 is the correct
future<BR>direction and fixing that would implicitly fix 1522. 1523
basically<BR>describes separating the "technology preview" that caused this
breakage<BR>out into it's own independent module so that it does not pollute
the<BR>OFED core. As such, it might be resisted as it's a "deeper cut"
type of<BR>fix, but one that removes the sick part rather than trying to
continue<BR>to bandage it.<BR><BR>b.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV></DIV>
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