[ofa-general] OFED (EWG) meeting minutes forJan 26, 2009

[Tziporet Koren]

These are the OFED (EWG) meeting minutes for Jan 26 on OFED future plans

Meeting Summary:
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1. We plan 1.4.1 point release. Tentative schedule - end of March
2. OFED 1.5 will be based over kernel 2.6.30
3. OFED 1.5 schedule will be end of July/beginning of Aug
4. We are moving to the new OFA server starting with git and build this
week - Jeff B. & Vlad

Details:
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1. 1.4.1 release
There is a consensus that we should have 1.4.1 release to support new
OSES.
There was an agreement to include Open MPI 1.3. release

Based on this main changes from 1.4 to 1.4.1 should be:
1. New OSes: RH 5.3 and SLES 11
2. Open MPI 1.3 (if 1.3.1 will be out in the time frame we will take it)
3. RDS with iWARP support
4. NFS/RDMA backports - at least to RH 5.2/3 and SLES 10 SP2
5. Critical bug fixes

Tentative Schedule:
RC1 at end of Feb
GA release at end of March

AIs: 
Tziporet: Find out when SLES 11 is planed for GA to see if 1.4.1 can
include it
All: Check with their QA on the possibility to do a QA in the suggested
time frame

Status of changes:
RH 5.3 - backports should be ready tomorrow
RDS over iWARP - Steve is working with Andy from Oracle. They are in bug
fixing phase. Should be ready to run Oracle 11 in 2 weeks
NFS/RDMA  - backport work is going slow. Already got to 2.6.25. Hope
they can have RH backports running in few weeks and them SLES 10 SP2
following.
Open MPI 1.3 - GA is ready, need to fix something in the install for
OFED 1.4 - Jeff please send a patch for this
SLES 11 - we will prepare backports now based on the Rc2 code - should
be ready next week.


2. OFED 1.5
- Kernel base: Since we are doing 1.4.1, 1.5 is going to be pushed in
schedule thus we should use kernel 2.6.30 as kernel base.
- Schedule: release is planned for end of July / beginning of August
- Tziporet will publish the detailed plan after we will have a final
date of 1.4.1 release
- Features: Bill Boas wanted to see RDMAoEth on the release. A
discussion on the features list will be discusses in next meeting

3. Move to the new OFA server
- We will start by moving git and the build system. Jeff B will work
with Vlad on this. Should be done this week and completed next week.
- Mail server, mailing lists and bugzilla can be moved later in the
background

4. Bill Boas reported he will start joining all EWG meeting as part of
his new role as OFA director.
Bill presented his view his view on important subjects that should be
covered in Sonoma, and 
stated that OFA should take care of more subjects like virtualization,
Low latency Ethernet, FCoE and more.

Tziporet