[ewg] OFA EWG Meeting: Monday, Oct 24, 2016, 09:00 AM US Pacific Time (12pm EST) - Agenda

[Woodruff, Robert J]

Since Vlad is still out, probably Ok to skip next week. I am also still waiting for an official response to our GPL only code request that we gave Jim Ryan in the last EWG meeting, i.e.,  to take to the board for discussion.

Also, from my reading of the bylaws, OFED may not actually be bound by the strict BSD/GPL requirement anyway since it does not, and has never, been approved by the board (which requires a vote) to be an official "Open Fabrics Software Stack" as is defined in the bylaws.

I have for guidance by Susan and Paul if that is indeed a correct interpretation.  Further, since they are currently updating the bylaws, I have
asked them to add a definition for OFED to the bylaws and make the distinction between "Open Fabrics Software" and OFED.
Below is the definition that I have suggested with the last sentence making the distinction clearer.

"OpenFabrics Software (OFS) is a suite of open source software components for networking focused on improving system performance, scalability, efficiency and reliability by applying advanced techniques such as Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) and kernel bypass to network operations.  OpenFabrics Software is developed by OFA member companies and other open source developers under the agreed upon OFA BSD/GPL dual license.  The OFS code is then contributed to the larger open source community as part of the RDMA subsystem and other related packages.  The integration of OFS code along with parts of the RDMA subsystem and related/necessary code is then packaged and provided as the Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED)."




From: Davis, Arlin R
Sent: Friday, October 21, 2016 1:49 PM
To: 'ewg at lists.openfabrics.org'
Cc: Woodruff, Robert J; Rupert Dance (rsdance at soft-forge.com)
Subject: OFA EWG Meeting: Monday, Oct 24, 2016, 09:00 AM US Pacific Time (12pm EST) - Agenda

All,

Not sure if there are any agenda items we need to cover on Monday since Vlad is still on vacation and the formal ask for GPL only components is still waiting for official response.

Woody, do you have any items you need to cover or should we just reconvene on Nov 7th after Vlad returns?

Regards, Arlin


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

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


Next Meeting:

Monday, October, 24, 2016, 09:00 AM US Pacific Time
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Regards,

Arlin



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