[ewg] RE: [ofw] SC'09 BOF - Meeting notes

[Or Gerlitz]

> get the RDMAoE code into 1.5, marked as evaluation if that is EWG's assessment
> rather than push it off to 1.6. This is important technology that should not be held back

> It would be great if RoCEE were part of 1.5 even if it were
> listed as "evaluation".. for now.

> this is leading edge technology, so saying that it is for early evaluation is appropriate

what is the thing you want to list as "evaluation" the whole ofed
version or the rdmaoe part of it? in case you refer to the latter,
this is impossible, since the rdmaoe patch set touches various areas
of the IB stack code and is way not self contained, so the whole IB
stack becomes "for evaluation", this stack is developed since June
2004 and maintained in the kernel since early 2005, over the last year
we see more and more people (e.g from the FSI market) looking and
delpolying IB, as the technology and code became enterprise ready. Do
you really want that after five years in January 2010 this stack will
become experimental? why?

Or.