[ewg] OFED October 6 2008 meeting summary on OFED 1.4 status

[Tziporet Koren]

OFED October 6 2008 meeting summary on OFED 1.4 status

Meeting Summary:
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1. RC3 is delayed for next week
2. There is a critical bug in NFS-RDMA - Jeff need to resolve it
3. Warning cleanup - bugs were opened and cleanup has started
4. Testing - on progress

Details:
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1. RC3 features:
	1. NFS-RDMA to work on RHEL 5.1 - done; However there is a
critical bug with NFS_RDMA on SLES 10 SP2.
	2. OSM: Cashed routing - patches sent - we wait for Sasha here
	3. Cleanup compilation warning - many warnings are cleaned now.
More work to be done.

2. OFED testing status:
Progress well at all companies. NFS-RDMA causing issues and must be
resolved for RC3, or being removed form OFED 1.4

3. OFED GA date:
There was a discussion on the question if we can make it for the GA date
at end of October.
Decision was not to change the plan now and see about critical bugs
status in 2 weeks and then decide.

4. Critical bugs review:
1128    	blo  	Othe  	stefan.roscher at de.ibm.com  	release
IPoIB-CM QP resources in flushing CQE context - no report from IBM
1113 	cri 	RHEL 	dorons at voltaire.com 		rpm -e
scsi-target-utils-0.1-2008715 fails - not supported on RHEL4 - not
critical since iSCSI target is not supported on RHEL4
1198 	cri 	SLES 	yosefe at voltaire.com 		hang during
ipoib create_child/ifdown - old bug thus not critical
1164 	maj 	SLES 	eli at mellanox.co.il 		iperf over IPoIB
fails for 100 tcp connections - assign to Yossi from Voltaire
1247 	maj 	RHEL 	eli at mellanox.co.il 		ipoib_ud_test
caused kernel oops on ofed_1_4 (sw083/084)
1221 	maj 	SLES 	Jeffrey.C.Becker at nasa.gov 	SLES10 sp2:
remote logins via ssh fail due to rpcbind and...
1248 	maj 	SLES 	monis at voltaire.com 		Bonding - after
reboot the host stucks while raising the ...
1099 	maj 	All 	vlad at mellanox.co.il 		IPoIB IPv6 does
not work on RH4 - under work
1153 	maj 	Othe 	yosefe at voltaire.com 		OpenSM-
Multicast group will not open when IB host is the... - have a patch in
IPoIB need to decide if to take it

4. OFA BOF at SC08 - Woody will setup a meeting with the relevant people
(including Windows people)


Tziporet