[ewg] status of ofed ipoib changes which are not upstream

[Eli Cohen]

On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 13:43 +0300, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> Eli Cohen wrote:
> >>     15	kernel_patches/fixes/ipoib_0190_unsig_udqp.patch
> > On older kernels this patch seems to improve throughput of small
> > messages so we should make the effort to include it. I would like to
> > verify this again and if this is correct I will send for review.
> I don't see why should performance gain only with old kernels justify 
> including such patch, Roland?
I don't intend to push this to upstream kernel but I think we should
keep it for ofed since for older kernels it provides better performance.

> >>     16	kernel_patches/fixes/ipoib_0210_draft_wr.patch
> >>     17	kernel_patches/fixes/ipoib_0220_ud_post_list.patch
> >>     18	kernel_patches/fixes/ipoib_0230_srq_post_n.patch
> >>     19	kernel_patches/fixes/ipoib_0250_non_srq_param.patch
> >>     20	kernel_patches/fixes/ipoib_0290_reduce_cm_tx.patch
> >>     21	kernel_patches/fixes/ipoib_0310_def_ring_sizes.patch
> >>     22	kernel_patches/fixes/ipoib_0320_small_skb_copy.patch
> >>     23	kernel_patches/fixes/ipoib_0330_child_mtu.patch
> >>     24	kernel_patches/fixes/ipoib_selector_updated.patch

We have a few critical bugs in ofed which I will address first and in
the background I'll push the fixes first and then the other patches. I
hope to get more of them to 2.6.26 and the rest will wait for 2.6.27.