[ewg] OFA EWG Meeting: Monday, Oct 10, 2016, 09:00 AM US Pacific Time (12pm EST) - Minutes

[Davis, Arlin R]

Attendees                          Company
Pradeep Kankipati            Avago/Broadcom
Tatyana Nikolova             Intel
Jim Ryan                            OFA
Robert Woodruff             Intel
Adit Ranadive                    VMware
Arlin Davis                          Intel
Bill Schmidt                        Intel
Brendon Myers                 Soft-Forge

Minutes:

*        Opens:

o   Additional OFED 4.8 component request for PVRDMA: (missed kernel 4.8, targeted for 4.9)

?  Paravirtual RDMA device for VMware hypervisor (library and driver components)

*    Woody suggested including as a normal component versus tech-preview given it is already being pushed upstream

*    Adit to work on 4.8 patches and backports, and send to Vlad

o   Formal request to include GPL only driver components into OFED (Woody to present formal ask to OFA board)

?  Intel would like to include i40en driver, need exception to the OFA dual license requirement

?  NVMe over Fabric drivers will have same licensing issues.

*        OFED 4.8 status:

o   Vlad provided new build on 10-10-16 (OFED-4.8-20161010-0609.tgz)

?  Fixes kernel 4.8 compilation issue, dropped ocrdma and mthca.

?  Includes ib_core, mlx4_core, mlx4_ib, mlx4_en, ib_ipoib, xeon-phi

?  Still missing: mlx5, cxgb3, cxgb4, nes, qib

?  RH 7.2 and SLES 12 SP2 backports provided

?  Next steps when Vlad returns from Vacation on November 1st:

*        Add mlx5 and ULP backports for RHEL7.2

*        Add support for other versions of RHEL7.x and SLES12

*        Replace user space libraries with rdma-core package

?  New components (i40iw, i40en, pvrdma) to be added after existing drivers done.

?  Any other new components expected? NVMeF or Intel Omni-Path?

o   Everyone please work on your components for both kernel 4.8 and RH 7.2 over the next 2-3 weeks.

?  Queue up patches for Vlad, try to be ready for his return on November 1st.

?  Notify EWG list of any build issues

*        User Packages:

o   http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/WorkGroups/ewg/OFED_User_Package_Status/2016/OFED-User-Package-Status-2016-09-12.pdf

*        Bug Status:

o   http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/WorkGroups/ewg/OFED_Bugs/2016/OFED-4.x-Bug-Status-2016-09-12.pdf


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Regards,

Arlin



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