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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Hi Suman,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Thank you very much for volunteering Samsung for the below patches. I will update the feature table for release 1 of 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> nvmewin-bounces@lists.openfabrics.org [mailto:nvmewin-bounces@lists.openfabrics.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Suman Prakash<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, April 10, 2015 7:57 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> nvmewin@lists.openfabrics.org; m.thapliyal@samsung.com; rohini.m@samsung.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [nvmewin] nvmewin Digest, Vol 40, Issue 3<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">All,</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Samsung would like to take up the following patches -</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">1.Feature - Optimizing driver initialization performance.<br>
Description - Instead of learning cores, use StorPortInitializePerfOpts() to get the array of MSI numbers corresponding to each logical processor and make the Llogical processor-Queue-MSIx mapping.<br>
Submitter - Samsung (Suman)<br>
Date - End of June</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">2. Feature - Handling device surprise removal in IOCTL path using Win 8.1 Timers.<br>
Description - The existing implementation of detecting surprise removal during IO using the StorPortNotification(RequestTimerCall,..) does not work when IOCTL commands are outstanding. Starting from Windows 8 kernel, StorPortRequestTimer() is supported which
handles the surprise removal in IOCTL path too. For Windows 7 kernel, this will be a limitation.<br>
Submitter - Samsung (Suman)<br>
Date - End of July</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">3. Feature - Device EOF support(Read Only)<br>
Description - Read only support for devices at EOL. Detection at init, hot plug, or run-time.<br>
Submitter - Samsung (Suman)<br>
Date - End of August</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Thanks,<br>
Suman</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 6:00 AM, <<a href="mailto:nvmewin-request@lists.openfabrics.org" target="_blank">nvmewin-request@lists.openfabrics.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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1. OFA Release Plan: Release #1 2015 -- Call for patch<br>
volunteers (Robles, Raymond C)<br>
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Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 00:29:00 +0000<br>
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Subject: [nvmewin] OFA Release Plan: Release #1 2015 -- Call for patch<br>
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All,<br>
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As we enter Q2, I'm happy to announce that we a have a very good feature plan in place for both Q2 and Q4 releases in 2015 of the OFA driver. The list of requested features is included below for final review.<br>
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I would like to formally ask for volunteers for patch submissions. As of today, there are no volunteers for any of the below patches.<br>
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Intel would like to start with the volunteering... we will volunteer to provide the namespace management patch.<br>
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2015 Release #1 (Q2/Q3 - 2015)<br>
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Feature<br>
<br>
Description<br>
<br>
Submitter<br>
<br>
Date<br>
<br>
Concurrent Channels<br>
<br>
Start I/O Concurrent Channels allows StartIo to be called in parallel resulting in improved IOPS.<br>
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<TBD><br>
<br>
<TBD><br>
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Perf Opts<br>
<br>
Instead of learning cores, use perf opts. Shave off 2 seconds in init code... using Storport initialize perf opts. No need for source core interrupt steering code in driver.<br>
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<TBD><br>
<br>
<TBD><br>
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Win 8.1 Timers<br>
<br>
Storport Notification usage. Hot plug and IOCTLs, this does not work, for Win8.1... StorportRequestTimer() function needed.<br>
<br>
<TBD><br>
<br>
<TBD><br>
<br>
CFS Bit Monitoring<br>
<br>
CFS bit monitoring and handling. Look into adding additional handling code just to monitor CSTS.CFS.<br>
<br>
<TBD><br>
<br>
<TBD><br>
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EOL - Read Only<br>
<br>
Read only support for devices at EOL. Detection at init, hot plug, or run-time.<br>
<br>
<TBD><br>
<br>
<TBD><br>
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Namespace Mgmt<br>
<br>
Namespace management - creation and deletion of namespaces.<br>
<br>
Intel (Carolyn)<br>
<br>
End of May<br>
<br>
WHQL<br>
<br>
WHQL test suite run (any bug fixes).<br>
<br>
<TBD><br>
<br>
<TBD><br>
<br>
<br>
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2015 Release #2 (Q4 - 2015)<br>
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Feature<br>
<br>
Description<br>
<br>
Submitter<br>
<br>
Date<br>
<br>
Multi-Path<br>
<br>
Multipath feature set from 1.1 spec (Multi-path I/O, Namespace Sharing, Reservations)<br>
<br>
<TBD><br>
<br>
<TBD><br>
<br>
RTD3<br>
<br>
Active/idle RTD3<br>
<br>
<TBD><br>
<br>
<TBD><br>
<br>
Temp Thresholds<br>
<br>
Temperature thresholds (Get/Set Feature and AER trigger)<br>
<br>
<TBD><br>
<br>
<TBD><br>
<br>
Live FW Update<br>
<br>
Live firmware update<br>
<br>
<TBD><br>
<br>
<TBD><br>
<br>
Atomicity<br>
<br>
Atomicity Enhancements<br>
<br>
<TBD><br>
<br>
<TBD><br>
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Win 10<br>
<br>
Win 10 support (push to Q4 release)<br>
<br>
<TBD><br>
<br>
<TBD><br>
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SNTL<br>
<br>
SNTL 1.5 doc updates<br>
<br>
<TBD><br>
<br>
<TBD><br>
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WHQL<br>
<br>
WHQL test suite run (any bug fixes) - for each release of OFA<br>
<br>
<TBD><br>
<br>
<TBD><br>
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Thanks,<br>
Ray<br>
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[<a href="cid:image001.png@01CB3870.4BB88E70">cid:image001.png@01CB3870.4BB88E70</a>]<br>
Raymond C. Robles<br>
NSG ISE Host Storage Software<br>
Intel Corporation<br>
Office: 480-554-2600<br>
Mobile: 480-399-0645<br>
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