Windows Working Group - WinOF Status Meeting: Tuesday, January 05, 2010
Attendees:
Intel, QLogic, Microsoft, Mellanox
Discussions:
QLogic focusing on their WinOF driver.
Target release in 1H '10 (June).
Working to 'disconnect' some WinOF code from specific driver code to allow for other vendors' HCA to interface easier.
QLogic plans to submit changes to WinOF for inclusion.
Microsoft pushing for a new release of WinOF in the summer of 2010 due to changes in the Network Direct API.
QLogic hopes to be ready with their driver in time for this release.
Sean running Network direct tests. Only problem seen so far is in ND_R_PING when mixing current and legacy
Mellanox drivers (MTHCA / MLX4) that affects RDMA writes.
WinVerbs updates are ready. Testing has been completed.
Network Direct for WinVerbs should be ready this week.
Installation should be similar to existing release. Added to IPoIB .inf file.
ND install still needs to be included to install a provider .
If two providers are installed, and both service the same IP address, it will use the first one it finds.
Fab would like to see IBAL provider replaced by new provider at install. That is, the Winverbs ND provider would become the default provider.
Testing for WinOF 2.2 is proceeding. DHCP patch will be pushed into trunk and 2.2 shortly. Testing will continue with WinVerbs patches, ND Provider etc.
RC 1 targeted for Thursday, Jan 7th
Stan looking over bugs in Bugzilla database.
State of IPoIB C/M
Code is in place and partially functional but was not prioritized by Mellanox development. They focused on NDIS 6.x instead.
Hoping to address this post WinOF 2.2
Planning for WinOF 2.3 in the summer (July) to synchronize with Microsoft's Network Direct API release.
Would like to see RDMA over Ethernet in that release
Thanks to John Russo for collecting meeting minutes.
stan.
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