[ewg] OFED 1.4 alpha release is ready

[Steve Wise]

How can we claim an alpha release when the tree is still based on 
linux-2.6.26 and doesn't have a large chunk of the new features integrated?


Tziporet Koren wrote:
> Hi, 
>
> OFED 1.4 alpha release is available on 
> http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-1.4/OFED-1.4-alpha1.tgz
>
> To get BUILD_ID run ofed_info 
>
> Please report any issues in bugzilla https://bugs.openfabrics.org/ for
> OFED 1.4
>
> The beta release is expected on August 7 2008
>
> Tziporet & Vlad 
>
>
> ========================================================================
>
> Release information: 
> -------------------- 
> Linux Operating Systems:
>         - RedHat EL4 up5:       2.6.9-55.ELsmp
>         - RedHat EL4 up6:       2.6.9-67.ELsmp
>         - RedHat EL5:           2.6.18-8.el5
>         - RedHat EL5 up1:       2.6.18-53.el5
>         - RedHat EL5 up2:       2.6.18-92.el5
>         - Fedora C9:            2.6.25-14.fc9       *
>         - SLES10:               2.6.16.21-0.8-smp
>         - SLES10 SP1:           2.6.16.46-0.12-smp
>         - SLES10 SP1 up1:       2.6.16.53-0.16-smp
>         - SLES10 SP2:           2.6.16.60-0.21-smp
>         - OpenSuSE 10.3:        2.6.22.5-31         *
>         - kernel.org:           2.6.26
>
>       * OSes that are partially tested 
>
> Systems: 
> 	* x86_64 
> 	* x86 
> 	* ia64 
> 	* ppc64 
>
>
> Main Changes from OFED 1.3
> ========================== 
>     1. General changes
>         o Kernel code based on 2.6.26 (will be 2.6.27)
>         o Added iSER target package
>         o Added NFS-RDMA support (for 2.6.26 only for now)
>     2. IPoIB
>         o LRO support - when we move to 2.6.27
>     3. SDP
>         o Bug fixes in the state machine and close flow
>     4. qlgc_vnic
>         o Support for hotswap of EVIC and dynamic update of existing
> connections
>           with the addition of QLogic dynamic update daemon.
>         o Performance improvements in handling of Ethernet
> broadcast/multicast
>           traffic.
>     5. RDS (for now only kernel 2.6.26 is working)
>         o GA of RDMA API (using FMRs) - RDS API version 3
>         o iWARP support
>     6. uDAPL
>         o Added socket based CM - for both scalability and interop with
> Windows
>         o Added UD extensions - for version 2.0 only
>         o v1 library package has been renamed to compat-dapl-1.2.8-1
>     7. Management
>         o OpenSM
>           - APM - disjoint paths
>           - Path balancing for LMC + console diagnostics
>           - OpenSM configuration unification
>           - MGID to MLID mapping for IPv6 SNM
>           - Routing engines chain
>           - IBA 1.2.1 additions
>           - Failover/Handover improvements
>         o ibutils:
>           - Congestion Control
>           - Report created in CSV format
>         o Diagnostic tools:
>           - ibnetdiscover library - to accelerate another tools
>     8. Low level drivers:
>         o mlx4: Enable Virtual Protocol Interconnect - Eth and IB on the
> same device
>           
>
> Tasks that should be completed for the beta: 
> ============================================
> 1. Move to kernel base 2.6.27-rc1 with the features:
>    - New verbs to support BMME (Fast memory thru send queue, Local
> invalidate send work requests,
>      Read with invalidate.
>    - IPoIB LRO
> 2. RDS to work on distro OSes
> 3. NFS-RDMA to work on distro OSes
> 4. New MPI versions: MVAPICH 1.1, OpenMPI 1.3, MVAPICH2 1.2
> 5. OSM: Cashed routing
>
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