[ofa-general] Re: [ewg] OFED March 24 meeting summary on OFED 1.4 plans
Tang, Changqing
changquing.tang at hp.com
Thu Apr 3 07:27:27 PDT 2008
Can we address multiple-fabrics (physically separated) support ?
--CQ Tang
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> [mailto:general-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org] On Behalf Of
> Erez Zilber
> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 8:51 AM
> To: Tziporet Koren
> Cc: ewg at lists.openfabrics.org; general at lists.openfabrics.org
> Subject: [ofa-general] Re: [ewg] OFED March 24 meeting
> summary on OFED 1.4 plans
>
> >
> > *OFED 1.4:*
> > 1. Kernel base: since we target 1.4 release to Sep we target the
> > kernel base to be 2.6.27
> > This is a good target, but we may need to stay with
> 2.6.26 if the
> > kernel progress will not be aligned.
> >
> > 2. Suggestions for new features:
> >
> > * NFS-RDMA
> > * Verbs: Reliable Multicast (to be presented at Sonoma)
> > * SDP - Zero copy (There was a question on IPv6 support
> - seems no
> > one interested for now)
> > * IPoIB - continue with performance enhancements
> > * Xsigo new virtual NIC
> > * New vendor HW support - non was reported so far (IBM
> and Chelsio
> > - do you have something?)
> > * OpenSM:
> > o Incremental routing
> > o Temporary SA DB - to answer queries and a heavy
> sweep is done
> > o APM - disjoint paths (?)
> > o MKey manager (?)
> > o Sasha to send more management features
> > * MPI:
> > o Open MPI 1.3
> > o APM support in MPI
> > o mvapich ???
> > * uDAPl
> > o Extensions for new APIs (like XRC) - ?
> > o uDAPL provider for interop between Windows & Linux
> > o 1.2 and 2.0 will stay
> >
>
> As I wrote in an earlier discussion (~2 months ago), we plan
> to add tgt (SCSI target) with iSCSI over iSER (and TCP of
> course) support. The git tree for tgt already exists on the
> ofa server.
>
> Erez
>
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