[ofa-general] Re: [ewg] Agenda for OFED meeting today

[Hal Rosenstock]

Hi Tziporet,

On 7/16/07, Tziporet Koren <tziporet at mellanox.co.il> wrote:
>
>  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
>
>
What happened to ibsim  ?  I thought that was on the list I originally sent.

-- Hal


>    - iWARP:
>       - * Chelsio: Get to GA level
>       - NetEffect: Get the drivers into OFED
>
> Tziporet Koren
> Software Director
> Mellanox Technologies
> mailto: *tziporet at mellanox.co.il* <tziporet at mellanox.co.il>
> Tel +972-4-9097200, ext 380
>
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