[ofa-general] Re: to be discussed at the developer conference

[Kanevsky, Arkady]

iWARP branch need time for connection management issues and a few
others.
There is impact on interoperability.
Thanks,

Arkady Kanevsky                       email: arkady at netapp.com
Network Appliance Inc.               phone: 781-768-5395
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roland Dreier [mailto:rdreier at cisco.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 4:38 PM
> To: Or Gerlitz
> Cc: EWG; OpenFabrics General; Dror Goldenberg
> Subject: [ofa-general] Re: to be discussed at the developer conference
> 
> At the highest level I think this "developer summit" is 
> suffering from a lack of a clear goal.  (The same could be 
> said about the OpenFabrics alliance as a whole, but let's not 
> get into that...)  I'm supposed to give a talk about the 
> basics of kernel development and I'm happy to do so, but that 
> implies a certain target audience that is pretty disjoint 
> from the developers who are leading development.
> 
> In general the most valuable use of face-to-face time with 
> code developers is to settle issues where email discussion 
> has gotten stuck.  If most people are not already familiar 
> with the issue then it is very difficult to be productive.
> 
> So with that said:
> 
>  > 1) the long time and endless threads related to the SA 
> caching thing  > need to be there. Sean - I saw that you 
> prepare a session, correct?
>  > will you presenting few possible designs?
> 
> This is the perfect type of thing to try and settle.
> 
>  > 2) as for IPoIB stateless offload - with Eli and Liran not 
> planned to  > be there. Dror - do you intend to actually 
> present the actual ipoib /  > core / drivers related design 
> and implementation?
> 
> Given that there really hasn't even been an attempt to 
> discuss this on the mailing list, I'm not convinced it's 
> worth trying to rush through explaining it.  I didn't think 
> the patches were particularly hard to understand.
> 
>  > 4) IPoIB connected mode UC support - Roland, can work on 
> this start  > once the no-SRQ design/code is agreed and 
> committed to a branch at  > your git?
> 
> Is there a spec for attaching UC QPs to SRQs?  Other than 
> that I think it's just a matter of someone caring enough to 
> start working on it.
> 
>  > 5) IB 4K MTU - in IPoIB and elsewhere in the IB stack, 
> same here,  > Roland, do you think a short session is needed
> 
> No -- I don't know of any issues that need face-to-face discussion.
> 
>  > 6) the netdev network batching RFCs - Krishna, Shirley, 
> will someone  > from IBM can prepare a session to educate us 
> on the matter and the  > status?
> 
> Why do we need to spend face-to-face time on this?
> 
>  - R.
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