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

[Smith, Stan]

Chris Worley wrote:
> 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

Hi Chris,
  Prior to a winOFED GA (general availability) release, the code has been installed/uninstalled and tested on the following platform combinations using Mellanox HCAs; mostly InfiniHost, some ConnectX on svr2008 & svr2008 R2:

1) x64 - svr2003, win7(Pro), svr2008(Ent,Std) , svr2008 R2(Ent), svr2008 R2 HPC Edition, XP-64
2) x86 - svr2003, win7(Ult), svr2008(Ent), svr2008 R2, XP
3) ia64 - svr2003

How do you observe the afore mentioned Enterprise problems?
NUMA is not tested (no hardware), are you sure you are not speaking of win2k8-R2 DataCenter w.r.t.?
What IB hardware are you using?
Latest firmware?

stan.

PS: BTW, congrats on getting SRP somewhat working and identifing the latest SRP target release that works.