[ofa-general] Agenda for OFED meeting today

[Tziporet Koren]

Hi All,

We have our OFED synch meeting today at 9am PST.

Agenda:
1. Merge the OFED 1.2.1 release with OFED 1.2.c release in August.
2. Agree on OFED 1.3 schedule:
	* Feature freeze - Sep 4
	* Alpha release - Sep 10
	* Beta release - Sep 25
	* RC1 - Oct 16
	* RC2 - Oct 30
	* RC3 - Nov 8 (assuming many of us are at SC07 on the week of
Nov 11)
	* RC4 - Nov 20
	* GA release - Nov 30 (or first week of Dec)
3. Review OFED 1.3 features list:
In last meeting we decided that the schedule is one of the most
important parameters in OFED 1.3.
Thus I divided the features for two categories:
*	"must have" features - features that must be ready for the
release (marked with *)
*	"optional" features - features that can be included in the
release in case they are ready according to the schedule

Must have general features:
====================
*	Kernel base on 2.6.23 (all new features that will be part of
this kernel will be included in OFED 1.3)
*	Install: 
*	Break the packages RPMs (work with Novell and Redhat) to
minimize integration effort into OS distribution
*	Package: 
*	Sources arrangement for the end user (for the labs)
*	New HCAs & RNICs:
*	ConnectX support
*	Any other new HW?
*	QoS: OSM, CM, CMA, ULPs (IPoIB, SDP, SRP)

Other features (must have marked with *)
==============================
*	libibverbs: New verbs: 
*	Scalable Reliable Connected Transport (with Mellanox ConnectX)*
*	Reliable Multicast?

ULPs:
*	IPoIB: 
*	Performance improvements (those that will be stable on time)
*	NAPI - done
*	SDP:
*	* Keepalive
*	* AIO
*	uDAPL:
*	DAT 2.0 support with IB extensions for immediate data, atomics; 
*	Add extensions for new verbs (SRCT,RM)
*	VNIC: 
*	GA quality. Not a technology preview version anymore.
*	Added support for QLogic EVIC (10 Gbps Infiniband-to-Ethernet
gateway) - in GA
*	RDS: RDMA API (using FMRs); GA quality with Oracle 11
*	NFSoRDMA integration - pending we have a maintainer

*	Management:
*	* Multiple partitions via libibumad
*	OpenSM
*	More routing performance improvements - done
*	Even more speedups - done
*	Better packaging/installation - done
"Native" daemon mode - done
*	* Performance management
*	* Quality of Service manager: Based on IBTA annex
*	Enhancements for fat tree routing (non pure tree support) - done
*	More console commands and telnet access to console - done
*	More diagnostics
*	ibidsverify.pl: validate LIDs and GUIDs in subnet - done
*	Updated ibnetdiscover format with link width and speed, and
GUIDs - done
*	ibnetdiscover grouping support for new Voltaire chassis - done
*	diag updates for IB router support - done
*	iblinkinfo.pl: Support peer port link width and speed validation
- done
*	ibdatacounters: Add script and man page for subnet wide data
counters saquery enhancements - done

*	iWARP:
*	* Chelsio: Get to GA level
*	NetEffect: Get the drivers into OFED

Tziporet Koren
Software Director
Mellanox Technologies
mailto: tziporet at mellanox.co.il
Tel +972-4-9097200, ext 380

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