[ofa-general] OFED June 30, 2008 meeting sumary

[Tziporet Koren]

OFED meeting summary for June 30, 2008
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Summary:
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- Agreed that all compilation problems should be fixed for beginning of
next week - July 7
- All new features from kernel 2.6.27 will be part of OFED 1.4

Details: 
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1. OFED 1.4 status:
   - Kernel: 
     - Merged with 2.6.26-rc8
     - Components with compilation problems: ipath - Qlogic, ehca - IBM,
iSER - Voltaire, qlogic_vnic - Qlogic
	 Qlogic and Voltaire plan to fix compilation problems by Monday
next week (July 7).
	 IBM - need update from 
     - New components: 
       iSER target - expected next week
       NFSoRDMA - no update from Jeff yet
     - RDS: iWARP support will be added for the feature freeze 
   - Userspace status:
     - uDAPL: 
	 - Moved the 1.0 library to the name compat to make it clear
that this is only for compatibility
	 - Added socket based CM - for both scalability and interop with
Windows
	 - Added UD extensions - for version 2.0 only
   - MPI:
	Open MPI: (from Yiftach since Jeff was not at the meeting): 
          Branch for version 1.3 was opened. Should be ready for OFED
1.4
	VMAPICH 1.1 and VMAPICH2 1.2 (OSU - Jonathan): 
          Both should be ready with first version to our feature freeze
in 2 weeks.
   - Management:
	SM: no report (Sasha did not participated)
	Congestion Control: Added to ibutils, as experimental feature
for OFED 1.4

2. Open discussion:
   - Rupert asked about RHEL5 version that can be used for the interop
event. 
     OFED already supports RHEL 5, 5.1 and 5.2 so the decision depend on
the inteop decision.

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