[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] OFED Jan 28 meeting summary on RC3 readiness

[Tang, Changqing]

When do you pack the official RC3 ?  Thanks.


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> [mailto:general-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org] On Behalf Of
> Tziporet Koren
> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 10:40 AM
> To: Doug Ledford
> Cc: ewg at lists.openfabrics.org; general at lists.openfabrics.org
> Subject: Re: [ewg] Re: [ofa-general] OFED Jan 28 meeting
> summary on RC3 readiness
>
> Doug Ledford wrote:
> >
> > Hmmm...I'd like to put my $.02 in here.  I don't have any
> visibility
> > into what drives the OFED schedule, so I have no clue as to
> why people
> > don't want to slip the schedule for this change.  I'm sure you guys
> > have your reasons.  However, I also happen to be a consumer of this
> > code, and I know for a fact that no one has gotten my input on this
> > issue.  So, the deal is that I'm currently integrating OFED
> 1.3 into
> > what will be RHEL5.2.  The RHEL5.2 freeze date has already
> passed, but
> > in order to keep what finally goes out from being too
> stale, I'm being
> > allowed to submit the OFED-1.3-rc1 code prior to freeze, and then
> > update to
> > OFED-1.3 final during our beta test process.  What this
> means, is that
> > anything you punt from 1.3 to 1.3.1, you are also punting out of
> > RHEL5.2 and RHEL4.7.  So, that being said, there's a whole trickle
> > down effect with various groups that would really like to
> be able to
> > use 5.2 out of the box that may prefer a slip in 1.3 so
> that this can
> > be part of it instead of punting to 1.3.1.  I'm not saying
> this will
> > change your mind, but I'm sure it wasn't part of the
> decision process
> > before, so I'm bringing it up.
> >
> Thanks for the input (BTW you are welcome to join our weekly
> meetings and give us feedback online) I think it is important
> to make sure RH new versions will include best OFED release
>
> This my suggestion is:
>
>     * Delay 1.3 release in a week
>     * Do RC4 next week - Feb 6
>     * Add RC5 on Feb 18 - this will be the GOLD version
>     * GA release on Feb 25
>
>
> All - please reply if this is acceptable
> >
> >
> > 760     major   eli at mellanox.co.il      UDP performance on
> Rx is lower
> > than Tx                          - for 1.3.1
> > 761     major   eli at mellanox.co.il      Poor and jittery UDP
> > performance at small messages              - for 1.3.1
> >
> >
> > Ditto for requesting these two be in 1.3.  We've already
> had customers
> > bring up the UDP performance issue in our previous releases.
> >
> >
> We will push some fixes of these to RC4 if the above plan is accepted
>
> Tziporet
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