[ewg] EWG/OFED meeting minutes for Nov 15, 2011

[Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 05:34:07PM +0000, Tziporet Koren wrote:
> 1. OFED 1.5.4 status:
> 
> They are few blocker and critical bugs
> We wait for the blocker bugs to be fixed - especially CXGB-4
> If you are a bug owner and it is resolved - please update bug status
> 
> Target for RC5 is early next week (21/22 Nov) and then GA a week after (assuming all bugs is fixed on time)
> 
> 1.5.4 list of bugs (blocker & critical)
> 
> ID	Sev	OS	Assignee	Status	Resolution	Summary
> 2290	blo	RHEL	vlad		"cxgb4 is not available on this platform" message seen while installing OFED-1.5.4 on RHEL5.6
> 2295	blo	SLES	perkinjo	Unable to build MVAPICH2 on SLES11SP1
> 2300	cri	Othe	perkinjo	MVAPICH2 needs to support facility to run traffic on more than 2 ports.
> 2326	cri	RHEL	perkinjo	IMB-MPI1 fails to run on heterogeneous cluster configuration on MVAPICH2.
> 2291	cri	Othe	swise		RPING fails to exit after completion of test.
> 2298	cri	Othe	vlad		Installation of OFED-1.5.4-rc1 is failing on Kernl-3.0.0
> 2328	cri	Othe	perkinjo	[OFED-1.5.4]: Unable to run MVAPICH2 on 3.0.0 kernel
> 2329	cri	All	swise		[OFED-1.5.4]: IMB-MPI1 errors out with message 'failed to create qp' when running test on 3 ports with OpenMPI.
> 2293	cri	Othe	andy.grover	Machine hits soft-lockup while unloading rds_rdma module.
> 2294	cri	SLES	swise		[CXGB-4] " NULL pointer dereference" error seen while unloading cxgb4 driver.
> 2299	cri	Othe	swise		[CXGB4]-IMB-MPI1 is failing to complete when run with -np 64 on 2 ports using OpenMPI
> 
> bugs can be found at:
> http://bugs.openfabrics.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&version=1.5.4
> 

Hello.

There is an upstream patch for mlx4 driver that fixes a problem with the
ethernet support. Can that be included for RC5?

The commit is
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c5d6136e10d667965e46f998c01863802f7b89c8.

Thanks,
Cascardo.

> 
> 2. EWG meeting day: if no objection will be raised the new day will be Tue at 9am PST
> 
> 3. XRC user space code: Woody will check with Sean the status. This is needed for OFED 2.0
> 
> Regards,
> Tziporet