[ewg] OFED Jan 5, 2009 meeting minutes on OFED plans

[Betsy Zeller]

 Given that we GA'd OFED 1.3 on Dec 10/08, I'm pretty uncomfortable with
scheduling our OFED 1.4 release almost a full 8 months later. If I
remember right, our goal is to have two OFED releases a year. 

How about  a schedule as follows:
Feature Freeze:	3/25/09
Alpha Release:	3/25/09
Beta Release:	4/20/09
RC1: 		     4/06/09
RC2:		     4/20/09
RC3:		     5/04/09
RC4:		     5/18/09
RC5:		     6/01/09
RC6:		     6/15/09
Release: 	   6/28/09

Or, we could be somewhat more firm about what constitutes a feature
freeze, make that later, and go with less RCs. But, one way or another,
I think we really need to tighten up the schedule.

Betsy


On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 23:41 +0200, Tziporet Koren wrote:
> OFED Jan 5, 2009 meeting minutes on future plans
> =====================================
> 
> Meeting minutes on the web:
> 
> http://www.openfabrics.org/txt/documentation/linux/EWG_meeting_minutes
> 
> Meeting Summary:
> ==============
> 1. OFED 1.4.1 release: We will look into it on middle of February
> 2. OFED 1.5: 
>     - Release target date is July 09
>     - Kernel base will be 2.6.29
>     - Features list - not closed yet
> 
> Details:
> ======
> 1. Conclusions from OFED 1.4 release:
> We got several comments from Doug (Redhat):
> - ammaso driver is not compiling - we should remove it from the kernel
> sources since its not compile
> - IBM ehca driver - does not compile on RHEL4
> - Improvements for the build system - grep for undefined functions and
> report this since they will fail when trying to load the module
> 
> Other conclusions:
> - Real feature freeze is only after we are on the right kernel base
> - We usually have at least 6 RCs - need to plan for this on the schedule
> 
> 2. Do we wish to have OFED 1.4. 1:
> Pros:
> We can add the following features:
> - RDS iWARP - Steve Wise
> - NFS/RDMA backports - Steve Wise
> - Open MPI 1.3 - Jeff S.
> - Supporting new OSes: RHEL 5.3, SLES 11
> - Fixes of fatal bugs - if found
> 
> Cons:
> - Having 1.4.1 release will delay 1.5 schedule for one month or more. 
> - A large QA effort.
> 
> Decision: 
> Since no fatal bugs were reported so far, we decide to revisit this in
> middle of Feb.
> Meanwhile Steve can work on RDS iWARP support and NFS/RDMA backports on
> the 1.4.1 branch.
> People that wish to work with Open MPI 1.3 can download it from its
> site.
> 
> 3. OFED 1.5: Schedule and features.
> Schedule:
> Release is planned for July. (assuming no 1.4.1 release)
> 
> Feature Freeze:	4/20/09
> Alpha Release:	4/20/09
> Beta Release:	5/20/09
> RC1: 		5/05/09
> RC2:		5/19/09
> RC3:		6/02/09
> RC4:		6/16/09
> RC5:		6/30/09
> RC6:		7/14/09
> Release: 	7/28/09
> 
> Features:
> * Kernel.org: 2.6.28 and 2.6.29
> * Multiple Event Queues to support Multi-core CPUs
> * NFS/RDMA - GA 
> * RDS support for iWARP
> * OpenMPI 1.3
> * Add support/backports for RedHat EL 5.3 and EL 4.8, SLES 11
> * Support for Mellanox vNIC (EoIB) and FCoIB with BridgeX device
> * SDP - performance improvements
> 
> * Mellanox suggested to add IB over Eth - this is similar to iWARP but
> more like IB (e.g. including UD), and can work over ConnectX.  
> A concern was raised by Intel (Dave Sommers) since it is not a standard
> transport.
> Decision: This request will be raised in the MWG, and they should decide
> if OFA can support it.
> 
> More discussions on 1.5 features will be done in next meeting.
> 
> Tziporet
> 
> 
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