[ewg] OFED release with RoCE v2 support

[Doug Ledford]

On 05/18/2016 10:24 AM, Woodruff, Robert J wrote:
> 
>> Thanks for the quick response.  
> 
>> Do we have any rough estimate on when the next major release of  OFED will GA?
> 
> In the past, when we move up to a new kernel version, it usually takes a fair amount of time for people to develop all the backports 
> to the various Linux distro kernels.  From past experience, I would estimate at least 6 months, which would put the release
> at the end of the year or so. If you want to keep closer tabs on the activities, you can subscribe to the ewg email list and/or attend the
> bi-weekly ewg conference calls. 

In this case, I expect you guys to be hurting hard when you try to do
all the backports.  The problem is that in the last year we have made
lots of changes that depend on upstream kernel improvements both inside
the RDMA stack and out.  I suspect this backport cycle may be worse than
those in the past.  But I could be wrong...

-- 
Doug Ledford <dledford at redhat.com>
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