[ofiwg] OFIWG 10/21/2025 Meeting Summary

[Xiong, Jianxin]

10/21/2025

Participants
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Alexander Oganezov (HPE)
Alexia Ingerson (Intel)
Ben Lynam [Cornelis]
James Swaro (HPE)
Jerome Soumagne (HPE)
Jianxin Xiong (Intel)
Jim Ryan
Kaike Wan (Intel)
Ken Raffenetti (ANL)
Rajalaxmi Angadi (Intel)
Sai Sunku [AWS]
Steven Vormwald (US - HPE)
Zach Dworkin (Intel)

Notes (AI-generated and manually edited)
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The meeting focused on updates to provider capabilities, documentation, and clarifications on AV removal handling and memory monitor ordering.
* Meeting discussed updates on provider capabilities and wiki documentation.
    - Add a separate entry for efa-direct
* Participants addressed questions about address vector and shared receive context (#11504).
* Clarifications were made regarding application responsibilities in handling AV removal.
* Discussion included the order of memory monitors for optimal performance.
    - Existing order: memhooks, uffd, kdreg2
    - Proposed order: kdreg2, memhooks, uffd
    - HPE: already using the new order internally;  AWS: feedback pending
* Participants agreed to update relevant man pages for clarity on undefined behaviors.

Action items (AI-generated)
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* Sai Sunku will update the EFA provider man page to clarify its behavior regarding address vector entries.
* Sai Sunku will add a line to the AV man page about undefined behavior related to removing and reinserting entries.
* Sai Sunku will check and provide feedback regarding the memory monitor order by tomorrow.
* Sai Sunku will close the old PRs related to the 2.1.x and 2.2.x branches.
* Sai Sunku will address the comments on his long-open PR and try to fix it.


Jianxin Xiong
Fabric Software
Intel Corporation
Jianxin.xiong at intel.com