[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] OFED October 27 2008 meeting summary on OFED 1.4 status

[Tziporet Koren]

Jeff Becker wrote:
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> I think I can get NFS_RDMA ready on 2.6.27 (it's already close) and
> 2.6.26  for rc4.
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Yes - please focus on this
>> 2. We had a discussion on NFS-RDMA since both RHEL 5.1 and SLES10 SP2
>> backports are not working well
>> We had a debate - do we take it out of OFED since it is not working on
>> the distros
>> Leave it in: We can have bug fixes for 1.4.1, and give customers a
>> platform to play with
>> Take it out: If someone will try it on the distro experience can be
>> problematic
>> Decision: We will leave it for 2.6.27 kernel only.
>> All testing should be done on this kernel mainly to see that basic
>> functionality is working
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> Since I wasn't at the meeting, I'd like to clarify. I am currently
> working on the distro backports, and plan to have these ready for 1.4.1.
> Assuming I get this done, can we include these in 1.4.1?
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Sure. If you will have any fixes till 1.4 release we will take them too.
The idea to leave NFS-RDMA in OFED 1.4 is to enable later dot releases 
with such fixes.

Tziporet