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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">This is OFED meeting agenda for today (April 6):</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Meeting Summary:<BR>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">a. OFED 1.4.1 release status: RC3 done, decided on RC4 date and bugs that should be fixed for the release.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">b. Reviewed the changes in OFED build process that will take place in OFED 1.5, following the BOF we had in Sonoma </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">c. Reminder: OFED roadmap is available on the web: </FONT></SPAN><A HREF="http://www.openfabrics.org/txt/woody/roadmap.txt"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://www.openfabrics.org/txt/woody/roadmap.txt</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">d. All participants are requested to review bugzilla bugs and update status (if they are still reproduced)</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Details:<BR>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">a. OFED 1.4.1 release status:</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Reminder for OFED 1.4.1 schedule:</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">*</FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">RC1 & RC2 - done</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">*</FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">RC3 - Apr 6<BR>
* RC4 - Apr 20<BR>
* GA - Apr 23</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Critical bugs :</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">We reviewed the high priority bugs and decreased the list to 11 bugs:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">bug_id bug_severity op_sys assigned_to short_short_desc</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">1538 blocker Other swise@opengridcomputing.com how to deal with /usr/src/ofa_kernel/include/linux/autoconf.h?</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">1578 blocker All swise@opengridcomputing.com ofa_kernel/include/linux/autoconf.h undefines macros</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">1589 critical RHEL 5 jon@opengridcomputing.com FRMR registration errors logged by cxgb3 during NFSRDMA iozone runs</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">1571 critical RHEL 5 vu@mellanox.com nfsrdma server crash @test5 connectathon basic test,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">1528 major RHEL 5 jackm@mellanox.co.il IPoIB get stack when running Hadoop application.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">1529 major RHEL 5 jackm@mellanox.co.il Opensm cannot be stopped following openib failure.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">1545 major Other jackm@mellanox.co.il Performance degradation in ofed 1.4.1 in TCP BW for some packets size</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">1570 major SLES 10 Jeffrey.C.Becker@nasa.gov rnfs-utils fails to compile on sles10sp2</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">1579 major RHEL 5 jsquyres@cisco.com OpenMPI-1.3.1-1: segfault during close</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">1581 major Other vlad@mellanox.co.il Unable to uninstall OFED1.4 due to dependencies on tgt and scsi-target-utils</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">1587 major Other yosefe@voltaire.com Adding and removing pkey from partition.conf cause to machine to hung</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">b. OFED 1.5 release process:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Make sure all participants are inline with decisions we took in Sonoma in t</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">he OFED/distro discussion:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">1) Identify all user components which are not packaged as tarballs and notify them that it will be a condition of inclusion in OFED 1.5 that they are packaged as tarballs.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">2) Ensure that each of the tarballs for OFED 1.5 has a unique version number, and that version numbers are updated appropriately as the tarball contents change. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">3) Ensure that each use level component that depends on specific kernel feature actually checks for the existence of that kernel feature, and politely declines to compile/install if that component is not available.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">4) Investigate making the OFED install work as non-root</FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">–</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> Doug has offered tutorials using BUILD_ROOT and chroot mechanisms to do non-root builds.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">5) bugzilla status: we have too many old bugs in bugzilla that no one know what is their status.<BR>
Thus we request that any one that opened a bug will see if it still reproduced.<BR>
If not mark as fixed and if yes change version number to 1.4.1</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">c. Bill raised the question how are we going to address MPI requests that were raised in Sonoma.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Tziporet updated that API for Memory registration notification is being derived by Jeff S. in MPI forum.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Maybe in next meeting Jeff will be on the call and he will be able to update us</FONT></SPAN></P>
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