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

[Betsy Zeller]

One of the things driving the OFED 1.3 date is that OFED 1.3 has to be
released before the Plugfest, which starts on March 10. I can deal  with
slipping OFED GA date to Feb 25, but I really don't think we should let
it slip into March. How confident are the developers that, if they get
the extra week, there won't be further slippage?

Doug - thanks very much for letting us know the plans for RHEL5 U2 -
it's great news that OFED 1.3 (final release) will be included.

- Betsy

On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 18:40 +0200, Tziporet Koren wrote:
> 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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