[ewg] OFA EWG Meeting: Monday, Apr, 10, 2017, 09:00 AM US Pacific Time (12pm EST) - Minutes

[Davis, Arlin R]

Attendees                          Company
David Dai                            IBM
Arlin Davis                          Intel
Bill Schmidt                        Intel
Tatyana Nikolova              Intel
Robert Woodruff              Intel
Jim Ryan                             OFA
Rupert Dance                    Software Forge
Susan Coulter                    lanl



Minutes:

*   Board approval process for OFED 4.8 should begin, need approval by May 15th GA target.

?  Woody/Arlin to draft formal email request to board

*   OFED 4.8:   http://downloads.openfabrics.org/OFED/ofed-4.8/OFED-4.8-rc1.tgz

?  RC1 validation progress:

?  Good progress by all, no major issues with most companies

?  Intel Xeon Phi team hitting Bug #2619

*        new libibscif released for v13 support, ready for RC2

?  Intel qib team hitting Bug #2622

?  Discussion regarding GA timelines

?  RC level for interop/debug events preferred (Early May), ability to add fixes for GA

?  Intel concerned about further delays, hoping for GA by May 15th timeframe.

*        General consensus reached for rdma-core v13

?  Vlad, please pull in rdma-core v13 and roll RC2 (by end of week if possible).

?  If IPoIB bug (#2619) can be resolved in next few days, pull into RC2

?  Do we have a patch process for v13+ patches? (Arlin to work with Vlad)

?  VMware, work with Vlad to remove out tree patches pushed into RC1.

*        NFS-rdma backports - deferred until OFED 4.8-1 (fall 2017?).

?  IBM would prefer NFS-rdma support in 4.8

?  What is confidence level for NFS-rdma in 4.8-1?

*        User Package Update

?  libfabric still at RC1, Sean Hefty to send Vlad GA packages for RC2.

*        Bug Report

?  2169 - P5 IPoIB ib0 interface fails with OPFED 4.8 on RH 7.2 (xeon-phi only? P1?)

?  2621 - P5 Unable to compile Lustre on daily builds (try RC1)

?  2622 - P5 Can't modprobe ib_qib after OS reboot/openibd reboot (P1?)

Regards,



Arlin




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