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

[Shirley Ma]

general-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org wrote on 01/30/2008 08:40:10 AM:

> 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

      Is also that possible to include some delayed features which are
planning to be in later release as well? Like IPoIB noSRQ, 4K mtu etc, we
do have some customers request already. IPoIB noSRQ has been in upper
stream already, but it's not in 2.6.24, it will be in 2.6.25. 4K mtu patch
is under review. We have passed our tests. I will post a new version
against RC3, and split the patch into several for 2.6.25 upper stream
submission.

thanks
Shirley
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