[openfabrics-ewg] OFED 1.0 release criteria

Tue May 9 00:13:55 PDT 2006

Yes, we plan to support the Cisco SRP Fibre Channel gateway in OFED 1.0.
As RHEL4 is the most common OS used with this gateway, we urgently need
RHEL4 SRP support back in OFED to continue testing.

We were planning to try the RHEL4 multipathd with OFED SRP, has anyone
else tried this yet?

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

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	From: openfabrics-ewg-bounces at openib.org
[mailto:openfabrics-ewg-bounces at openib.org] On Behalf Of Sujal Das
	Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 3:42 PM
	To: openfabrics-ewg at openib.org
	Subject: RE: [openfabrics-ewg] OFED 1.0 release criteria

	Scott (Cisco) and Bob (SliverStorm):  Please let us know if your
respective SRP gateways will be qualified for the OFED 1.0 release.
Provide details of what will be qualified and supported.

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	From: openfabrics-ewg-bounces at openib.org
[mailto:openfabrics-ewg-bounces at openib.org] On Behalf Of Tziporet Koren
	Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 7:31 AM
	To: openfabrics-ewg at openib.org
	Subject: [openfabrics-ewg] OFED 1.0 release criteria

	Hi All,

	Since a request for release criteria was raised I prepared this
first proposal and I would like to review it in the meeting today.

	Tziporet

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	OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) 1.0 release criteria:

	The release criteria are composed from the following:

	1.      Bugs and limitations

	2.      Systems supported

	3.      Performance

	4.      Testing

	In each section there are different criteria according to the
component categories definition:

	1.      Basic: GA components that installed in typical
installation.

	2.      Add-on: Components that are optional and one should
choose them specifically.

	3.      Technology preview: Components that their quality level
is not GA, but can be used by customers for technology development

	1. Bugs and limitations:

	The criteria for limitations and known bugs should be defined
according to each component category:

	1.      Basic: no high and showstopper bugs

	2.      Add-on: no showstopper bugs

	3.      Technology preview: passing basic tests (each component
owner should define what are these tests)

	In addition the install and build scripts should be clean since
it is most important that in first interface of the customer with IB
will be smooth.

	2. Systems Supported

	There are three different categories in the system setting:

	*       CPU architecture

	*       Infiniband HW (HCAs and switches) 

	*       Operating system.

	Each component of OFED should support the systems in this way:

	1.      Basic: supporting all systems

	2.      Add-on: supporting the systems defined by the component
owner 

	3.      Technology preview: supporting the systems defined by
the component owner

	Note: Owners please send me the list of components you support

	2.1. CPU Architectures: 

	a)      x86_32 

	b)      x84_64 (Intel; AMD) 

	c)      ia64

	d)      PPC64 (Power5, Power6)

	2.2 Infiniband HW:

	a)      HCAs: 

	I.      Mellanox: both DDR and SDR are supported
	FW burned should be the last official released by Mellanox:

	i.      InfiniHost III Lx: fw-25204-1.0.800

	ii.     InfiniHost III Ex: fw-25218-5.1.400 and fw-25208-4.7.600

	iii.    InfiniHost: fw-23108-3.4.000

	iv.     InfiniScale III - fw-47396-0.8.4

	v.      InfiniScale - fw-43132-5.6.0

	II.     Qlogic: Please send the list of your HCAs

	b)      Switches: (each vendor should send the list)

	I.      Cisco:

	II.     Voltaire:

	III.    SilverStorm:

	IV.     Flextronix:

	2.3. Linux distributors and kernels 

	a)      Redhat: 

	a.      AS EL4 up2 and up3; 

	b.      Fedora C4 (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4)

	b)      Novel:

	a.      SLES10 beta 10

	b.      SuSE Pro 10 (kernel 2.6.13-15-smp)

	c)      kernel.org: 2.6.16.x

	3. Performance requirements: 

	The performance (latency and bandwidth) of OFED 1.0 should be at
least as gen1 software stacks available or better.

	The performance benchmark for each ULP:

	1.      Basic verbs - performance tests from OpenFabrics (send,
RDMA read/write latency & BW)

	2.      IPoIB - netperf

	3.      MPI - Pallas

	4.      SDP - iperf

	5.      SRP - iometer

	6.      iSER - iometer

	4. Testing

	1.      Minimum cluster size to be tested:
	Need at least 128 nodes cluster - not clear to me if any company
has such a cluster

	2.      Long runs: The final release should run at least 72
(maybe higher?) hours without any failure.

	3.      Storage target tested:

	a)      Engenio target

	b)      Cisco & SST - please add more target systems

	c)      Voltaire - please add iSER target

	Other criteria: (not clear to me if these are must for 1.0
release)

	1. Scalability requirements 

	b)      SM:

	a)      Bringup a subnet with 1,000 nodes in 2 minutes

	b)      SM should not be a bottle neck in any application
running (IPoIB)

	c)      MPI:

	a)      MPI runner - should be able to launch thousands of
processes (say 50,000) in a bounded time manner.

	b)      Memory consumption - should be able to run many
processes on the same node (for now, 8 processes is the upper limit with
the Opteron machines), in a many node (thousands of nodes) installation.

	c)      Sending HUGE messages in collectives - MPI should not
fail for limited physical memory.

	2. Documentation requirements 

	a)      Product brief - who is the owner for this?

	b)      README & Installation guide 

	c)      Release notes 

	d)      Troubleshooting

	e)      FAQ

	3.  Specifications compliance: 

	a)       Verbs & management: InfiniBand Architecture
Specification, Volume 1, Release 1.2 

	b)       IPoIB: www.ietf.org <http://www.ietf.org> :
draft-ietf-ipoib-architecture-04 and
draft-ietf-ipoib-ip-over-infiniband-07 

	c)       SDP: Annex A4" of the InfiniBand Architecture
Specification, Volume 1, Release 1.2 

	d)       SRP: SCSI RDMA Protocol-2 (SRP-2), Doc. no. T10/1524-D.
(www.t10.org/ftp/t10/drafts/srp2/srp2r00a.pdf
<http://www.t10.org/ftp/t10/drafts/srp2/srp2r00a.pdf> ). 

	e)       MPI: www.mpi-forum.org/docs/mpi-11-html/mpi-report.html
<http://www.mpi-forum.org/docs/mpi-11-html/mpi-report.html> 

	f)         iSER:
www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-hufferd-iser-ib-01.pdf
<http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-hufferd-iser-ib-01.pdf>  

	g)       RDS: SS can you provide info

	Tziporet Koren

	Software Director

	Mellanox Technologies

	mailto:tziporet at mellanox.co.il <mailto:tziporet at mellanox.co.il> 

	Tel +972-4-9097200, ext 380

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