[ewg] OFA EWG Meeting: Monday, Nov 21, 2019 - 9:00 am PST - Minutes

[Davis, Arlin R]

Yes, I guess you could call them middleware. I am thinking NVMe-oF, which sits under block storage stacks. I am just trying to see where fabric-based storage/edge/memory devices fit in this picture. For OFED, we have several ULP's including IPoIB, NVMe-oF, iSER, iSCSI, NFS-rdma, etc.

From: Paul Grun <grun at cray.com>
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Subject: RE: OFA EWG Meeting: Monday, Nov 21, 2019 - 9:00 am PST - Minutes

Arlin - Thanks for the opportunity to talk with the EWG this morning.  Do you think ULPs can be included as either middleware or part of the application layer?

From: Davis, Arlin R <arlin.r.davis at intel.com<mailto:arlin.r.davis at intel.com>>
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Subject: OFA EWG Meeting: Monday, Nov 21, 2019 - 9:00 am PST - Minutes

Attendees                    Company
Bill Snapko                    HPE
Arlin Davis                     Intel

Jim Ryan                        OFA

Bob Woodruff               Intel
Henry Orosco               Intel
Paul Grun                       Cray



Minutes:



*        OFED-5.3 latest - https://downloads.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-5.3-daily/OFED-5.3-20191018-2019.tgz

  *   Latest drop includes changes to help Huawei integrate new hns drivers.
  *   Vlad hasn't received any backport patches, so we have questions:

     *   Do vendors have resources or a commitment to support OFED going forward?

        *   Chelsio, Cavium, Broadcom, VMware was not on call to give guidance.

     *   Would it be better to target a newer kernel, possibly target 5.5 early next year?

  *   Everyone, please confirm your status as stated or provide an update with resource commitment:

     *   Mellanox - Vlad (most backports complete)
     *   Chelsio - Bharat (no resource commitments for OFED 5.3)
     *   Cavium- Michal (no resources to work, disable for 5.3)
     *   Broadcom - Devesh (resources tight, no ETA for backports)
     *   VMware - Adit (new driver patches targeted for 5.5, not ready for 5.3)
     *   Huawei - Lijun Ou (working with Vlad on 5.3 and backports)
     *   Intel (i40iw) - Henry (5.3 support only, no backports supported)


  *   Technical Program Committee ask - themes for 2020

     *   Paul presented a new themes proposal, asked for feedback

        *   Good discussion, will take input back to TPC
        *   Note: my connection dropped; was going to suggest ULP's be added to the picture.

           *   any other input I need to capture in EWG minutes?



Please correct/add anything I missed.

Regards,



Arlin


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