[ofa-general] OFED Jan 14 meeting summary on RC2 readiness

[Tziporet Koren]

OFED Jan-14 meeting summary on OFED 1.3-rc2 readiness

Meeting decisions:
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* RC2 will be released on Wednesday
* XRC will be added after this - meaning we must have RC4

Meeting details:
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1. Review release status
* Qlogic - status is good - still work on some bugs
* Intel - RC1 is OK, will test the vmapich fix for ia64
* Mellanox - regression is good and stable
* IBM - see several issues on PPC
* Neteffect - new maintainer Glenn Streiff
* Chelsio - no one participated
* Cisco - no one participated
* Voltaire - no one participated

2. Update on tasks that should be completed for RC2:
   *	XRC - enhanced API - will be ready on Wed - decided it will not
delay RC2 so it will be merged next week
   *	IPoIB performance improvements for small messages - not a must
for RC2
   *	Open MPI 1.2.5-rc2 - done

3. Bugs review: Critical and major 
bug_id 	bug_severity 	assigned_to 	short_short_desc
858 	critical 	bugzilla at openib.org 	ibv_cmd_query_device
fails - Jack answered 
846 	critical 	jim at mellanox.com 	SDP crash on RHEL5 ppc64
running netserver - will be debugged next week
849 	critical 	vlad at mellanox.co.il 	IB_core is not compiling
on ppc64 with rhel-4.6 - no issue (checked it in Mellanox)
760 	major 	eli at mellanox.co.il 	UDP performance on Rx is lower
than Tx
761 	major 	eli at mellanox.co.il 	Poor and jittery UDP performance
at 
small messages
736 	major 	rolandd at cisco.com 	IBV_WC_RETRY_EXC_ERR errors with
local 
rdma_reads
767 	major 	swise at opengridcomputing.com 	Non backport Kernels
that don't 
build in genalloc cause compile errors for cxgb3

Tziporet