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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Hello all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear",sans-serif;color:#44546A">I extended the review period for this patch to allow for more time. We’re coming up on the end of the year and I’d like to wrap up all planned patches.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear",sans-serif;color:#44546A"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Intel is wrapping up our review of this patch and will send out our feedback by the end of the week. Still awaiting feedback from Samsung and PMC. In order
to keep to our original schedule, I’d like to wrap this patch up as soon as possible. Intel will be next with the namespace management patch.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear",sans-serif;color:#44546A"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Ray<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;color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"> nvmewin-bounces@lists.openfabrics.org [mailto:nvmewin-bounces@lists.openfabrics.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Robles, Raymond C<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, October 07, 2015 12:54 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Thomas Freeman; nvmewin@lists.openfabrics.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [nvmewin] Changes for SNTL 1.5 and SCSI Persistent Reserve In/Out<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear",sans-serif;color:#44546A;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Tom,</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear",sans-serif;color:#44546A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear",sans-serif;color:#44546A"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Thanks for volunteering to submit this patch while Intel is wrapping up the namespace management patch.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear",sans-serif;color:#44546A"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear",sans-serif;color:#44546A;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">All Reviewers,</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear",sans-serif;color:#44546A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear",sans-serif;color:#44546A"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Please provide feedback on HGST’s patch by
</span><b><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear",sans-serif;color:red">October 21<sup>st</sup>, 2015</span></u></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear",sans-serif;color:#44546A">. Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear",sans-serif;color:#44546A"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Ray<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;color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"> Thomas Freeman [<a href="mailto:thomas.freeman@hgst.com">mailto:thomas.freeman@hgst.com</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, October 07, 2015 12:45 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:nvmewin@lists.openfabrics.org">nvmewin@lists.openfabrics.org</a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Robles, Raymond C<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Changes for SNTL 1.5 and SCSI Persistent Reserve In/Out<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:windowtext">This patch includes changes to support SNTL version 1.5, SCSI Persistent Reserve In/Out and a variety of small fixes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">The following tests were successfully run on Windows 2008 R2, Windows 2012 and Windows 2012 R2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">1 hour sdstress, 1 hour IOMETER, Quick and Slow format - MBR and GPT, Microsoft Scsi Compliance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">The above tests were run with an NVMe 1.1a compliant device that does not support NVMe Reservations.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Testing variations of Unit SN VPD page/Device ID Data Page (requiring V1.0 or NGUID support) and
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">SCSI Persistent Reserve In/Out, required setting breakpoints to manually alter the required Identify<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">data. At that point individual SCSI commands were issued and the driver's response (NVMe commands
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">issued and data returned) was manually verified.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">The attached file, SNTL15ResInOut.zip, contains a Patch file, a copy of the source code and a Log file detailing the changes made.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">The password for the file is “nvmehgst”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:90%"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:90%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Tom Freeman</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:90%"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:90%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Software Engineer, Device Manager and Driver Development</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:90%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:90%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext">HGST, a Western Digital company</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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