[ewg] OFA EWG Meeting: Monday, Nov 20th, 2017, 09:00 AM US Pacific Time (12pm EST) - Minutes

[Davis, Arlin R]

Reminder, we would like to wrap up GA this week. Chelsio is a go.
Please send release note updates to Vlad as soon as possible.

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Subject: [ewg] OFA EWG Meeting: Monday, Nov 20th, 2017, 09:00 AM US Pacific Time (12pm EST) - Minutes

Attendees:
Pradeep Kankipati    Broadcom
Rupert Dance              SW Forge

Ariel Elior                     Cavium
Ram Amrani                Cavium
Michal Kalderon        Cavium
Robert Woodruff        Intel
Arlin Davis                    Intel
Bill Schmidt                  Intel
Paul Bowden               Intel
Tatyana Nikolova      Intel


Minutes:

*         Opens

?  iSER target question; why is it not included?

?  Due to the lack of maintainer support it was removed, revisit next OFED release.

?  NFS-rdma question; what distro's are supported?  limited to SLES12.2 and RH7.3

?  Cavium will test.

?  Thanks to everyone for making upstream rdma-core stable branch happen so quickly!

?  Big win for OFED and other distro's!



*         OFED 4.8-1 RC3 status

?  http://downloads.openfabrics.org/OFED/ofed-4.8-1/OFED-4.8-1-rc3.tgz

?  http://downloads.openfabrics.org/OFED/release_notes/OFED_4.8-1_rc3-release_notes

?  Lots of validation done, no critical issues to report, more time needed

?  Arlin to check with Chelsio regarding validation results for 4.8-1 RC3.

?  Bug Report/Status -

?  No Critical/Blocking bugs open at this time.

?  Broadcom and Cavium fixes are included in latest kernel and rdma-core stable branch pulls.

?  New rstream issue reported,  Cavium to open new bug with details



?  GA goal is set for end of next week - Nov 30/Dec 1st if all goes well.

?  Please review and send Vlad release note updates early next week.

*         Add Cavium/Broadcom devices to "RoCE Adapters" list

*         Add i40iw device to "iWarp Adapters"; kernel.org 4.8 only?

*         List distro limitations for NFS-rdma; SLES 12.2 and RH7.3 only?

*         Add NVMeoF support; kernel.org 4.8 only

*         Remove Xeon Phi support notes



Feel free to send corrections and/or omissions.



Regards,



Arlin


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