[ofw] [ANNOUNCE] winOFED 2.3 RC3 available for download

[Chris Worley]

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Smith, Stan <stan.smith at intel.com> wrote:
> Hi chris,
>
> Chris Worley wrote:
>> Are there any testing procedures for the Windows SRP initiator?  If
>> so, where can they be found?
>
> No specific SRP tests are in the SVN source tree.
> Mellanox used to be the SRP maintainers although they have backed away from this due to other pressing concerns.
>
> SRP testing has been limited to installing Windows SRP drivers and communicating with an OFED 1.4.1 system exporting vdisks.
> Once the windows client sees the vdisks, multi-gigabyte files are copied to and back from the SRP target and then verified (fc.exe) to be the same bytes; basic functionality, performance not addressed.
> Since there are no active SRP maintainers, SRP status is questionable at this juncture.
> Care to join the party as an SRP maintainer?

In general, what versions of Windows are used in testing non-SRP parts
of the stack?  W2K8R2 "Standard" seemed to work well... but
"Enterprise" seems to go nuts w/ interrupts and NUMA distribution, and
occasionally locks up.

Thanks,

Chris