[ewg] EWG/OFED meeting minutes for Jan 25 2010

Woodruff, Robert J robert.j.woodruff at intel.com
Wed Jan 27 14:46:14 PST 2010


Roland wrote, 
>The fact that OFED is considering shipping ummunotify also could be used
>to help the process -- if it does seem to be degenerating into an
>unbounded discussion, we can say, "look, this is sufficiently painful to
>the MPI guys that they are going to ship out-of-tree hacks if we can't
>come up with a plan for the mainline kernel."

If it is not going to go upstream in it's current form, I'd rather not see it go into OFED.
It would just cause confusion and issues for people later as they would have to re-code
to some other interface later that is accepted upstream. 


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