[nvmewin] Happy New Year... and status update

[Iuliu Rus]

Yes we can send that to you. Is the process still the same?

On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 1:25 PM, Robles, Raymond C <
raymond.c.robles at intel.com> wrote:

> Hello Iuliu,
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> As the OFA community is closing on its mid-year release, we have only one
> more patch that was targeted… concurrent channels. Will Google still be
> submitting the concurrent channels patch?
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> Thank you…
>
> Ray
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> *From:* nvmewin-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org [mailto:
> nvmewin-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org] *On Behalf Of *Robles, Raymond C
> *Sent:* Thursday, January 14, 2016 4:55 PM
> *To:* 'nvmewin at lists.openfabrics.org' <nvmewin at lists.openfabrics.org>
> *Subject:* [nvmewin] Happy New Year... and status update
>
>
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> Hello and Happy New Year,
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> I hope everyone had a great holiday season and is off to a great start to
> the new year!
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> As communicated last month, the patch from HGST for the SCSI
> multi-initiator changes has been approved and pushed. The holidays slowed
> down much of the progress on the OFA driver and there were several patches
> that did not get pushed prior to the end of the year. The list of patches
> remained to be pushed are as follows…
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> ·         Namespace Management (Intel)
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> ·         Perf Opts (Samsung)
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> ·         Win 8.1 Timers (Samsung)
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> ·         EOL Read Only (Samsung)
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> ·         Concurrent channels (Google)
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> The namespace management patch will be sent out for review tomorrow (look
> for the patch email from Carolyn)… stay tuned!!!
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> However, once this patch is resolved, we as a community will have to make
> a decision on an official release strategy. The patch process and cadence
> was significantly slower in 2015 which leaves us with a few options.
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> 1.       Release what is in the trunk today (or after the namespace
> management patch)… and call that the 2015 release (albeit later than
> expected)
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> 2.       In lieu of an official 2015 release, we push the remaining
> patches listed above… and then release in ~Q2 of 2015. Basically skip a
> 2015 release and go right into the mid-2016 release.
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> 3.       Remove the concept of “official releases” from the OFA Windows
> NVMe driver and just allow people, companies, and users to pull from the
> OFA trunk as necessary.
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> For #3 above, my thoughts are that because the OFA driver is not a
> production driver… but a reference and enabling driver, it should/could be
> managed as just that… a reference baseline driver that any potential user
> can go and grab the source, or contribute a patch. Nothing more… nothing
> less.
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> For the release decision, I’ll be happy to call a meeting… but we can also
> handle it via email as well… just let me know. Feedback from all is
> welcome… but I would request mandatory feedback form the 4 reviewing
> companies: Samsung, HGST, PMC-Sierra, and Intel. How would you like to
> proceed?
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> Thanks,
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> Ray
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> *[image: cid:image001.png at 01CB3870.4BB88E70]*
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> *Raymond C. Robles*
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