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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A">As a friendly reminder, here is the process for submitting a patch. Please let me know if you have any questions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Process:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Submitter needs to base their changes on the latest (and re-base/re-test prior to sending their patch).
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A">They send the patch to the email list "nvmewin@lists.openfabrics.org".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Some review will happen over the reflector, the maintainer will send a message out that the db is locked when they’re ready to apply the patch
which will be once at least one member from each mandatory reviewing company on the review panel has approved (can be via email or con call if needed). Once the patch is applied, the maintainer will send an email out.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Patch Contents:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Code changes, short summary for SVN log, more verbose write up for release notes, confirmation of what Windows platforms had been tested.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Patch must follow the coding guidelines as attached.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A">All source files should be zipped up into a .zip file with password enabled. The zip file name should properly describe the main changes of
the patch.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Reviews:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Patches submitted by anyone, email to distribution list "nvmewin@lists.openfabrics.org".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Patch submission should include time sensitivity/expectations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Patch submission should include justification for the patch (what value will it add, and are tradeoffs what are they and why would we want
to take a hit). If multiple implementation options were considered, what data/reasoning was behind the implementation choice.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Patch submission should include files modified and explanation of code changes in each file.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A">At a minimum reviews need to be completed by Intel, PMC-Sierra, HGST, and Samsung representatives.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Reviews include compliance with coding guidelines (in SVN) as well as logic.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Unit Testing (all patches and release candidates require, at a minimum, the following testing):<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A">1 hour of data integrity testing using sdstress (Microsoft Tool)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A">1 hour of heavy stress testing using IOMETER covering, at least, 512B, 4KB and 128KB ranging from 1 OIO to 64 OIO both sequential and random<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Quick and slow format of both MBR and GPT partitioning<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Microsoft SCSI Compliance, no failures except (warnings OK)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Additional testing with other tools is encouraged<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Occurs in all supported OSs for the release
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A">64-bit, Windows 7, 8.0, 8,1, server 2008R2 and 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#44546A"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A">32-bit, Windows 7, 8.0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Minimum test platform is latest QEMU. Those with their HW should test on it as well.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A">QEMU is available at https://github.com/nvmeqemu/nvmeqemu
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Ray<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1F497D"><img width="54" height="39" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D0CAE3.84BB78D0" alt="cid:image001.png@01CB3870.4BB88E70"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Raymond C. Robles<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Non-Volatile Memory Solutions Group<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Internal SSD Engineering<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Intel® Corporation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Desk: 480.554.2600<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Mobile: 480.399.0645</span><span style="font-family:"Intel Clear Light",sans-serif;color:#44546A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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