[ewg] EWG/OFED meeting minutes for Apr 20, 09

[Tziporet Koren]

This is OFED meeting minutes for April 20 09:

Summary:
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1. OFED 1.4.1 is delayed in two weeks: 
   RC4 Monday next week - Apr-27
   GA a week after - May-4
2. Started work on OFED 1.5 kernel tree based on kernel.org 2.6.30-rc2
3. OFA system admin - Ido Rosen will join Jeff on helping the system
administration

Details:
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a. OFED 1.4.1 release status:
* RC4 - Decided to delay to next Monday in order to fix the critical
issues.
Main things to fix: 
- Open MPI 1.3.2 
- SLES 11 issues
- NFS/RDMA issues

Due to the needed fixes the release is delayed in two weeks.

Critical bugs:
bug_id	bug_severity	op_sys	assigned_to
short_short_desc
1571	critical		RHEL 5	vu at mellanox.com		nfsrdma
server crash @test5 connectathon basic test,
1528	major		RHEL 5	jackm at mellanox.co.il		IPoIB
get stack when running Hadoop application.
1529	major		RHEL 5	jackm at mellanox.co.il		Opensm
cannot be stopped following openib failure.
1596	major		Other	Jeffrey.C.Becker at nasa.gov	openibd
stop failed when nfs is loaded
1579	major		RHEL 5	jsquyres at cisco.com
OpenMPI-1.3.1-1: segfault during close


b. OFED 1.5:
Update: 
* Vlad opened kernel branch based on 2.6.30-rc2
* Jack is working to have basic components compile (core & ipoib).
  Should have the first version this week
* Once this will work we will change the user space (especially to the
new management tree)

c. Update on MPI memory registration requirement - Jeff S.
We all wait for Roland's respond 

d. Open discussion
OFA system admin - Ido Rosen will join Jeff on helping the system
administration


Tziporet