[Ofa_boardplus] OFA Repo and Maintainer List cleanup

[Jason Gunthorpe]

It would be useful to know if IBM is still using DAPL.

Bernard can you find out?

Jason

On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 08:24:20AM +0000, Davis, Arlin R wrote:

> Yes, we do have to provide support for Intel MPI and Xeon Phi
> Co-Processor for a couple more years. IBM DB2 PureScale is also a
> consumer of DAPL, mainly because of the OS agnostic RDMA interfaces.
> 
> -arlin
> 
> > 
> > There is not much addition work (other than bug fixes) is being done on
> > DAPL, but it is still used by the shipping version of Intel MPI, so we still need
> > the repo for now.
> > 
> > Longer term, the next version of Intel MPI for 2019 is based on OFI and I am
> > not sure if anything else is actually using DAPL, so longer term, Jason is right
> > that it will stop being relevant in a couple of years.
> > 
> > +Arlin, DAPL maintainer in case he wants to comment.
> > 
> > Woody
> > 
> > 
> > From: Ofa_boardplus [mailto:ofa_boardplus-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org]
> > On Behalf Of Jason Gunthorpe
> > Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2018 12:24 PM
> > To: Coulter, Susan K <skc at lanl.gov>
> > Cc: ofa_boardplus at lists.openfabrics.org,
> > <ofa_boardplus at lists.openfabrics.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Ofa_boardplus] OFA Repo and Maintainer List cleanup
> > 
> > libvmw_pvrdma is already part of rdma-core these days
> > 
> > libscif is a 'verbs provider' and is incompatible with rdma-core, so it is
> > basically useless for OFA. Recommend to remove it too.
> > 
> > That leaves only two things.. DAPL is basically a dead project superceeded by
> > libfabric. It will stop being relavent in two years I suspect.
> > 
> > The same excercies should be done on the windows side. AFAIK 'OFED for
> > Windows' and related is completely dead and should be removed too.
> > 
> > Jason
> > 
> > On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 07:11:07PM +0000, Coulter, Susan K wrote:
> > >    Folks,
> > >    This has been a long time coming … we need to remove old, obsolete
> > >    cruft from the OFA “repo”.
> > >    Please review the attached document - it has 2 sections.
> > >    1.  A list of the directories available from the "OpenFabrics Software”
> > >    page.
> > >    That page is a quick link from the OFA home page, so easy to get to and
> > >    therefore prone to confuse.
> > >    I am recommending all but 3 of those directories should be removed.
> > >    If we can find a better place for the 3 that seem current - that would
> > >    be great.
> > >    ( since there is no “OpenFabrics Software” - and that whole page needs
> > >    a major upgrade )
> > >    2.  A list of Maintainers.
> > >    We should either review and insure correctness of this list - or remove
> > >    it entirely.
> > >    Any feedback is appreciated.
> > >    Thanx.
> > >
> > >    ================================
> > >    Susan Coulter
> > >    LANL / USRC / HPC-DES
> > >    Network Lead
> > >    (505) 412-6525
> > >    Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu
> > >    ================================
> > 
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