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

[Carl Hensler]

Obviously I meant the IBoE functionality, not the entire stack.

Carl

Or Gerlitz wrote:
>> 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.