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

[Chris Worley]

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Smith, Stan <stan.smith at intel.com> wrote:
> 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?

As I explained to Tzachi, I wasn't able to deep-dive.

> NUMA is not tested (no hardware), are you sure you are not speaking of win2k8-R2 DataCenter w.r.t.?

It's "Enterprise" where Windows starts getting NUMA nodes right (>64 cores).

> What IB hardware are you using?

Dual QDR HCA's, each with a link connected to the target.  I do wonder
if this is the issue.

> Latest firmware?

Never can keep up :(

Chris