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

[Steve Wise]

What is the cut-off date to have all the backports done (not new 
features, just backports of 2.6.30 functionality to the older kernels)?

Is it RC1?


Tziporet Koren wrote:
>  
> This is OFED meeting minutes for April 20 09:
>
> Summary:
> ========
> 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:
> ======
>
> 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
> _______________________________________________
> ewg mailing list
> ewg at lists.openfabrics.org
> http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ewg
>