[openfabrics-ewg] OFED RC6 - status and AIs

[Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen)]

I saw the libsdp RFC, but don't recall it being suggested to put in OFED
1.0.  In any case, can we track these types of major changes in
bugzilla?

Scott Weitzenkamp
SQA and Release Manager
Server Virtualization Business Unit
Cisco Systems
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tziporet Koren [mailto:tziporet at mellanox.co.il] 
> Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 9:52 AM
> To: Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen); openfabrics-ewg at openib.org
> Subject: RE: [openfabrics-ewg] OFED RC6 - status and AIs
> 
> libsdp was a show stopper since the previous libsdp could not run Java
> applications and any application (like Apache web server) 
> that use IPv6.
> 
> Eitan Zahavi sent an RFC to OpenFabrics mailing list and got no
> objection for the changes.
> 
> Regarding performance:
> MPI:
> We will test performance of the basic verbs using the official
> performance tests that come with the release. If we see any 
> issue there
> we will fix it.
> If the basic verbs performance is good then the changes to the
> performance is something in the upper MPI used.
> 
> SDP: 
> The new SDP implementation is mainly focused on stability and
> correctness and not performance. We will do a simple analysis 
> and if we
> will find things we can easily fix we will do it. However major
> performance improvements will be done in the next release.
> 
> Tziporet
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen) [mailto:sweitzen at cisco.com] 
> Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 6:42 PM
> To: Tziporet Koren; openfabrics-ewg at openib.org
> Subject: RE: [openfabrics-ewg] OFED RC6 - status and AIs
> 
> > I wish to remind all that this from this RC components are in code
> freeze (meaning only 
> > showstopper bugs check-in is allowed).
> 
> I see lots of code movement in libsdp after RC5, was this really a
> showstopper bug?  I think it would useful if major changes like this
> were logged as bugs in bugzilla.
> 
> I would also like to see the MPI and SDP performance dropoffs fixed
> before FCS, for RC6 if possible (I'll be opening bugs).
>  
> Scott Weitzenkamp
> SQA and Release Manager
> Server Virtualization Business Unit
> Cisco Systems
>