[ewg] RE: OFED meeting agenda for today (Oct 22)

[Yevgeny Kliteynik]

Or,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tziporet Koren [mailto:tziporet at dev.mellanox.co.il] 
> Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2008 14:31
> To: Or Gerlitz
> Cc: Woodruff, Robert J; ewg at lists.openfabrics.org; Yevgeny Kliteynik
> Subject: Re: [ewg] RE: OFED meeting agenda for today (Oct 22)
> 
> Or Gerlitz wrote:
> >
> > slide 11 (1.4 features) says
> >
> > "RDS - GA with RDMA API" - wrong, RDS patches are now on 
> hold for 1.4 
> > such that 1.4.1 is a must just in that sense
> GA with RDMA API is already done over IB RDS patches on hold 
> are those that supports iWARP.
> >
> > "Congestion Control in ibutils" - can someone elaborate what is the 
> > exact feature?
> This is part of ibis and work over ConnectX - You can ask 
> Yevgeny K for details

ibis now can send/receive Congestion Control MADs, which allows
us to configure and monitor Congestion Control mechanism on
the devices that support it (ConnectX and InfiniScale IV)

-- Yevgeny

> > "VPI support: Eth and IB for ConnectX" - what is VPI and 
> how it is used?
> This was presented already at Sonoma (look at my presentation 
> on the web), and was part of the plan all the time (look at
> http://www.openfabrics.org/txt/woody/roadmap.txt)
> The name was Multi-Protocol before and VPI (Virtual Protocol
> Interconnect) now
> > I understand that the mlx4_en driver was added to the release. 
> This is the way the MP is implemented, and its just one more 
> module for the mlx4_core. and Roland is the Linux maintainer.
> 
> Tziporet
>