[nvmewin] OFA NVMe Driver 2014 Planning meeting

[Kwok Kong]

Agenda 1-29-14:

-       Review 1.3 release status
-       Plan for the 2014 release
-       Review action items
-       AOB


Release 1.3 features/fixes:

- Hibernation (Yong Chen - Huawei)
- NUMA group support in core enumeration - (Alex Chang - PMC)
                - Core-MSI vector queue mapping issues
                - CMD_ENTRY synchronization issues
- Remove using mask bits as core index to allocate core tables - (Alex Chang - PMC)
- Paramlist length problem - (Alex Chang - PMC)
- NVMeInitAdminQueues return value - (Alex Chang - PMC)
- Performance issue in Windows 2012 and Windows 8. - (Alex Chang - PMC)
- freeQList Access - (Alex Chang - PMC)
- PRP list building problem - (Alex Chang - PMC)
- remove #define for CHATHAM2 (Carolyn)
- Learning of CPU core to Vector failure handling (Carolyn)
- Not handling CSTS.RDY status (from 1->0 and 0->1) properly on NVMe reset (Dharani @Sandisk)
- Controller reset does not handle all cases (Dharani @Sandisk)
- orphaned requests (Dharani @Sandisk)
- BUILDIO (Rick)

The following features has been deferred to 2014:

- End to end protection support
- Driver tracing feature - Robert Randall (Micron)
- Migrate to VS2013, WDK 8.1
- WHQL Certification

Features that are not supported currently:
NVMe 1.1 support:
- multi-path
- SGL
- Get/Set feature update
- Autonomous power state transition
- Host Identifier
- Reservation Notification Mask
- Reservation Persistence
- identify structure update
- write zeros command


Actions

1.      Check with intel team to remove #define for CHATHAM2 in the source code - Done OK to remove
        - Carolyn Foster (intel)

2.      Set up meeting in Jan 2014 to discuss release plan for 2014. - This meeting.
        - Kwok Kong (PMC)

3.      Send up test requirement for submitting patch. - Done
        - Kwok Kong (PMC)

4.      Send out memory/core dump procedure to debug the driver.
        - Yong Chen (Huawei)








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