[ewg] OFA EWG Meeting: Monday, Mar 25th, 2018 - Minutes

[Davis, Arlin R]

>> Hi,
>> I have no way to maintain my own version of perftest package.
>> If a pull request can be created on github based on the latest version 
>> of perftest I can ask maintainers to build the new version with the fix.
>
> The PR has already been pulled into perftest tree few weeks ago. I just had to create this backport patch because I sensed that there were few talk floating around to roll-back a > > certain patch from intel which broke perftest in the upstream. 
> Link to the PR: https://github.com/linux-rdma/perftest/pull/53
>

OFED pulls directly from upstream projects. This requires stable 
branches for any backported cherry picked fixes. Since perftest doesn't 
support stable branches, we clearly have to fix both 2698 and 2701 in 
their latest release.
 
So, how do we get issue #52 (#2698) prioritized and fixed? Anyone have suggestions?
https://github.com/linux-rdma/perftest/issues/52
https://bugs.openfabrics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2698

>>
>> What is the missing dependency for rdma-core, is there a bug for this?
>>
> vlagrind and libnl3-devel, the build system ask for dependency once rdma-core build starts, however it will be much more
> smooth if these dependency is asked during initial phases of install.pl 
>

Vlad, can this be done with minor changes and does it make sense? 
Devesh, can you open a bug for this enhancement request with the details?

Thanks,

Arlin