[ofa-general] OFED October 27 2008 meeting summary on OFED 1.4 status

[Jeff Becker]

Hi Tziporet. I'm sorry I was unable to attend the meeting.

Tziporet Koren wrote:
> OFED October 27 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:
> ==============
> 1. RC4 is planed for next week - Nov 4
> 2. NFS_RDMA will be enabled on kernel 2.6.27 only since its not actually
> working on the distros
>
>   
I think I can get NFS_RDMA ready on 2.6.27 (it's already close) and
2.6.26  for rc4.
> Details:
> ======
> 1. Bugs status and decide on their priority
>
> 1262    	cri  	andy.grover at oracle.com  	congestion hang
> with RDS - not critical
> 1298 	cri 	Jeffrey.C.Becker at nasa.gov 	nfsrdma rh5.1 causes
> kernel panic - not critical - will disable it on RHEL5
> 1299 	cri 	Jeffrey.C.Becker at nasa.gov 	nfs module is missing
> symbols in rh5.1 - not critical - same as above
> 1287 	cri 	vlad at mellanox.co.il 	 	IPoIB datagram mode
> initial packet loss - not critical need to check if it happened on OFED
> 1.3 too
> 1242 	cri 	yannick.cote at qlogic.com 	kernel panic while
> running mpi2007 against ofed1.4 -- ib_... - on work
> 1301 	maj 	andy.grover at oracle.com 	Can not load rds module on RH4
> up7 - Olga will look at this
> 1221 	maj 	Jeffrey.C.Becker at nasa.gov 	SLES10 sp2: remote
> logins via ssh fail due to rpcbind and... - will disable on this OS
> 1284 	maj 	monis at voltaire.com 	 	Bonding - when eth
> bonding and IB bonding are configured,... on work
> 1286 	maj 	monis at voltaire.com 	 	bond does not failover
> correctly - on work
> 1308 	maj 	vlad at mellanox.co.il 	 	path_rec_completion
> [ib_ipoib] kernel Oops (Unable to han...- on work
> 1164 	maj 	yosefe at voltaire.com 	 	iperf over IPoIB UD
> fails for 100 tcp connections - reduce to normal
> 1288 	maj 	yosefe at voltaire.com 	 	bug warning while
> disabling/enabling ports from he switch - check with Yossi
>
> 2. We had a discussion on NFS-RDMA since both RHEL 5.1 and SLES10 SP2
> backports are not working well
> We had a debate - do we take it out of OFED since it is not working on
> the distros
> Leave it in: We can have bug fixes for 1.4.1, and give customers a
> platform to play with
> Take it out: If someone will try it on the distro experience can be
> problematic
> Decision: We will leave it for 2.6.27 kernel only.
> All testing should be done on this kernel mainly to see that basic
> functionality is working
>   
Since I wasn't at the meeting, I'd like to clarify. I am currently
working on the distro backports, and plan to have these ready for 1.4.1.
Assuming I get this done, can we include these in 1.4.1?

Thanks.

-jeff
> 3. Decide on RC4 target date - Nov 4
> Betsy will check the compilation warnings status - and see if we can
> have more improvements for RC4
>
> 4. Reviewed BOF presentation from Woody.
> General content is good.
> For OFED 1.5 - we will add list of OSes that their support will be
> dropped
>
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