[ewg] OFA EWG Meeting: Monday, Aug 27th, 2018 - Minutes

[Davis, Arlin R]

Attendees                     Company
Devesh Sharma            Broadcom
Steve Wise                   Chelsio
Arlin Davis                   Intel
Tatyana Nikolova        Intel - i40iw
Vladimir Sokolovsky    Mellanox
Rupert Dance               SW Forge
Yuval Bason                 Cavium


Minutes:

*        Opens

o   Intel seeing new issues with ewg/ofiwg email lists getting tagged as spam. No one else having issues. Arlin will work with Ken S.

o   Software Forge is running into OpenMPI issues with rdma_core libraries. Will wait for backports or try 4.17 version.

?  Intel will also test OpenMPI on latest OFED.



*        OFED-4.17 daily build (Aug 22nd): https://downloads.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-4.17-daily/OFED-4.17-20180822-1352.tgz

o   Mellanox

?  All core backports done (RH7.4, 7.5, SLES12.3, 15), still testing

?  IPoIB, SRP, iSER Host, NVMe Host done

?  iSER target and NVMeoF target backports still in process

?  NFS-RDMA being worked (7.5?) by Jeff Becker, no update this week.

?  All connectX drivers upstream are included in OFED

o   Chelsio

?  Still working SLES12.3, RH7.4 is done, patches need to be sent out - Steve will check on status

o   Broadcom

?  Still working on 7.5 netdev bugs, hope to make progress this week.

o   Cavium

?  Still working on 7.4, FW update issue has been resolved.

o   Intel

?  i40iw on 4.17 still needs validation testing, Tatyana will check and report back.

?  qib (True Scale) 7.5 backports still in process, will attempt to complete by next meeting.

o   VMware

?  No update

o   Huawei

?  No activity or formal request seen by ewg so far.

o   RC/GA Timeline

?  Everyone agreed to a target of mid-September for RC1

?  Stretch goal to get to an RC2 for Interop/Debug Event in early October.



Please let me know if I missed anything or need corrections.



Regards,



Arlin
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