[ewg] EWG/OFED meting minutes for - 28-Mar, 2011

[Tziporet Koren]

  EWG/OFED meeting minutes for 28-Mar, 2011:

1. OFED 1.6 schedule:
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- Move to kernel 2.6.38 (since its GA already, and we have not started 
backports)
- Ongoing work on backports - during Q2
- First RC - mid of June
- RCs every 2 weeks
- GA - mid of Sep.

2. OFED 1.6 main features:
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- Kernel base: 2.6.38
- SRIOV support for mlx4 with CX2 & CX3
- FDR support
- New OSes support: As usual the latest OSes will be supported
- Remove MPI packages from OFED
- NFSRDMA will be supported with limited backports (RHEL6, SLES11sp1).
- New Hardware support
     - Chelsio's T4 adapter (iw_cxgb4/cxgb4).
     - Mellanox's CX3 support
- OpenSM main improvements:
     1. Torus-2QoS routing engine
     2. Performance Manager improvements: improved redirection and 
extended counters support
     3. Additional port balancing options for routing
     4. SRIOV support
     5. Extended link speed support
- Diagnostic tools - Ira can you add

3. Next EWG meetings:
We have decided not to have any meetings on April after the OFA Workshop 
in Monterrey
Meetings will be renewed on May 2, 2011

CU all at Monterrey

Tziporet