[ofa-general] OFED October 22 2008 meeting summary on OFED 1.4 status

[Tziporet Koren]

OFED October 22 2008 meeting summary on OFED 1.4 status:

Meeting minutes on the web:
http://www.openfabrics.org/txt/documentation/linux/EWG_meeting_minutes/

Meeting Summary:
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1. All should review the normal severity bugs to make sure they are not
critical for the GA
2. RC4 date decision will be done on Monday (Oct 27)
3. Reviewed Linux portion of the BOF at SC08

Details:
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Agenda for OFED meeting today on OFED 1.4 status:

1. OFED 1.4 status:
- RC3 was done on Monday Oct 20 - main changes:
	- Kernel base updated to 2.6.27
	- NFS-RDMA is NOT enabled by default. To enable it one must
chose it using custom installation, or add it to ofed.conf file.
	- Updated MPI packages: mvapich-1.1.0-3064, mvapich2-trunk-3073,
openmpi-1.2.8-1
	- Updated bonding package: ib-bonding-0.9.0-31
	- Updated uDAPL: compat-dapl-1.2.11-1, dapl-2.0.14-1
	- NFS-RDMA to work on RHEL 5.1
	- OSM: Cashed routing

2. Bugs review:
1283    	blo  	jeremy.brown at qlogic.com  	Intel MPI fails
on Qlogc HCA - on work
1242 	cri 	yannick.cote at qlogic.com 	kernel panic while
running mpi2007 against ofed1.4 -- ib_... - should be fixed
1257 	cri 	eli at mellanox.co.il 		Severe performance
penalty for PCIe strict ordering - fix on work with Roland
1262 	cri 	andy.grover at oracle.com 	congestion hang with RDS - ??
1282 	cri 	amirv at mellanox.co.il 		Kernel panic during
Netperf run - on work
1164 	maj 	yosefe at voltaire.com 		iperf over IPoIB fails
for 100 tcp connections - on work
1221 	maj 	Jeffrey.C.Becker at nasa.gov 	SLES10 sp2: remote
logins via ssh fail due to rpcbind and... - ?? 
1284 	maj 	monis at voltaire.com 		Bonding - when eth
bonding and IB bonding are configuerd,... - make sure its fixed in RC3


3. Reviewed OFED BOF slides - Woody should send the new version for
review in next meeting


Tziporet