[ofa-general] OFED October 22 meeting summary on OFED 1.3 alphastatus and beta tasks

[Erez Zilber]

Tziporet Koren wrote:
>
> OFED October 8 meeting summary on OFED 1.3 alpha status and beta tasks:
>
> Meeting summary:
> ================
> 1. Alpha release status:
> * Cisco - tested only RHEL 4 & 5 on x86_64 systems
> * Qlogic - in general looks good
> * Intel - test Intel MPI on 16 nodes cluster on RHEL 5.1
> * Voltaire - partial regression SLES10 SP1 Redhat 5; few on RHEL 4 up5
> * Mellanox - regression tests pass on all HCAs. Tested SLES10, RHEL 4 up
> 4 & up5 , RHEL 5
> * IBM - test mainly SLES10 SP1 on PPC; solve issues in ehca with their
> new HCA;
>         see issues with 32 bits library
>
> 2. MPI status:
> * MVAPICH - We wish to integrate the 1.0 code by the end of this week.
> In this way it will be ready for the OFED beta release next week - need
> DK approval
> * Open MPI - Open MPI v1.2.4 is sufficient for OFED 1.3. It contains a
> critical fix for ConnectX hardware that will greatly improve the
> point-to-point latency for small messages.
> Open MPI v1.3 is far enough away that we're not ready for anything newer
> to go into OFED 1.3.
> * VMAPICH 2 - ready for the release.
>
> 3. Tasks that should completed for the beta:
>         1. Integrate all SDP features - Jim (Mellanox) - will be
> completed this week
>         2. Complete RDS work - Vlad (Mellanox) - on work
>         3. Apply patches that fix warning of backport patches - Vlad
> (Mellanox)
>         4. Fix compilation problems on PPC with 32 bits - Vlad
> (Mellanox) -
>          Nam please open a bug on this issue
>         5. Add qperf test from Qlogic - Johann (Qlogic) - on work
>         6. Rebase kernel code on 2.6.24 rc1 (depending it's
> availability)
>            Will require changes in the bonding module too.
>         7. Support RHEL 5 up1 - Woody & Vlad - done
>         8. SPEC files should be part of each user space package - each
> owner should take the spec file
>         9. Multiple uDAPL libs (1.0 & 2.0)
>      10. iSER - update the open iscsi package 
>

Done

>      11. nes - need to update some backport patches (Gleb)
>
> * Beta target date will be decided in next week meeting based on the
> progress of the above
>
>
> 4. OFED meetings:
> * Starting next week we will move to weekly meetings to have a better
> tracking for the release progress
> * Jeff S. will send the meeting schedule and details
>
> 5. NFS-RDMA:
> * NFS-RDMA will be part of Linux kernel 2.6.24
> * Thus it will be in OFED 1.3 kernel, but we need backport patches to
> support the distros
> * Bill Boas will speak to OGC (Tom Tucker and Steve Wise) to see if this
> can be done for the beta, at least for the latest OSes (e.g. RHEL5,
> SLES10 SP1)
>
> 6. Developers' summit:
> * All people requested to review the agenda Johann will publish and make
> sure all subjects we wish to discuss are covered.
>
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