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<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">As already agreed upon, Samsung will submit the following patches:</SPAN></P>
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<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">1. Optimizing driver initialization performance </SPAN><STRONG><U><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; COLOR: #0000ff">(23 March)</SPAN></U></STRONG></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">2. Handling device Surprise removal in IOCTL path (After 1st patch)<BR>3. Read only support (After 2nd patch)</SPAN></P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">
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<P><B>Sender</B> : Robles, Raymond C<raymond.c.robles@intel.com></P>
<P><B>Date</B> : Mar 18, 2016 06:26 (GMT+05:30)</P>
<P><B>Title</B> : [nvmewin] Q1`2016 NVMe Win Update</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Intel Clear",sans-serif; COLOR: #002060'>With this latest patch from Intel for namespace management, the OFA driver is open for the next set of patches from Samsung (outlined below). <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Intel Clear",sans-serif; COLOR: #002060'>As agreed upon in the previous email chain, option #2 was selected by majority and will be the plan for 2016. After Samsung pushes their three patches, the WHCK/WHQL test suite will be on the OFA driver (by a volunteer company) against a released NVMe SSD.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Intel Clear",sans-serif; COLOR: #002060'>Of course, an official WHQL certification cannot happen with this driver since it would need to be against a company’s specific NVMe device, but the WHQL test suite passing will act as our release criteria for the mid-year 2016 release.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Intel Clear",sans-serif; COLOR: #002060'>Please let me know if there are any questions or concerns around the current release plan for 2016.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B>From:</B> nvmewin-bounces@lists.openfabrics.org [mailto:nvmewin-bounces@lists.openfabrics.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Robles, Raymond C<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, January 14, 2016 4:55 PM<BR><B>To:</B> 'nvmewin@lists.openfabrics.org' <nvmewin@lists.openfabrics.org><BR><B>Subject:</B> [nvmewin] Happy New Year... and status update<o:p></o:p></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Intel Clear",sans-serif; COLOR: #44546a'>I hope everyone had a great holiday season and is off to a great start to the new year!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Intel Clear",sans-serif; COLOR: #44546a'>As communicated last month, the patch from HGST for the SCSI multi-initiator changes has been approved and pushed. The holidays slowed down much of the progress on the OFA driver and there were several patches that did not get pushed prior to the end of the year. The list of patches remained to be pushed are as follows…<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Intel Clear",sans-serif; COLOR: #44546a'>The namespace management patch will be sent out for review tomorrow (look for the patch email from Carolyn)… stay tuned!!!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Intel Clear",sans-serif; COLOR: #44546a'>However, once this patch is resolved, we as a community will have to make a decision on an official release strategy. The patch process and cadence was significantly slower in 2015 which leaves us with a few options. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoListParagraph style="TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo4"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Intel Clear",sans-serif; COLOR: #44546a'><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore">1.<SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; FONT-VARIANT: normal; FONT-STYLE: normal; LINE-HEIGHT: normal'> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Intel Clear",sans-serif; COLOR: #44546a'>Release what is in the trunk today (or after the namespace management patch)… and call that the 2015 release (albeit later than expected)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoListParagraph style="TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo4"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Intel Clear",sans-serif; COLOR: #44546a'><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore">2.<SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; FONT-VARIANT: normal; FONT-STYLE: normal; LINE-HEIGHT: normal'> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Intel Clear",sans-serif; COLOR: #44546a'>In lieu of an official 2015 release, we push the remaining patches listed above… and then release in ~Q2 of 2015. Basically skip a 2015 release and go right into the mid-2016 release.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoListParagraph style="TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo4"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Intel Clear",sans-serif; COLOR: #44546a'><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore">3.<SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; FONT-VARIANT: normal; FONT-STYLE: normal; LINE-HEIGHT: normal'> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Intel Clear",sans-serif; COLOR: #44546a'>Remove the concept of “official releases” from the OFA Windows NVMe driver and just allow people, companies, and users to pull from the OFA trunk as necessary.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Intel Clear",sans-serif; COLOR: #44546a'>For #3 above, my thoughts are that because the OFA driver is not a production driver… but a reference and enabling driver, it should/could be managed as just that… a reference baseline driver that any potential user can go and grab the source, or contribute a patch. Nothing more… nothing less.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Intel Clear",sans-serif; BACKGROUND: yellow; COLOR: #44546a; mso-highlight: yellow'>For the release decision, I’ll be happy to call a meeting… but we can also handle it via email as well… just let me know. Feedback from all is welcome… but I would request mandatory feedback form the 4 reviewing companies: Samsung, HGST, PMC-Sierra, and Intel. How would you like to proceed?</SPAN><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Intel Clear",sans-serif; COLOR: #44546a'><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Intel Clear",sans-serif; COLOR: #44546a'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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