Yes, I guess you could call them middleware. I am thinking NVMe-oF, which sits under block storage stacks. I am just trying to see where fabric-based storage/edge/memory devices fit in this picture. For OFED, we have several ULP's including IPoIB, NVMe-oF, iSER, iSCSI, NFS-rdma, etc.
From: Paul Grun <g...@cray.com> Sent: Monday, October 21, 2019 5:39 PM To: Davis, Arlin R <arlin.r.da...@intel.com>; 'ewg@lists.openfabrics.org' <ewg@lists.openfabrics.org> Cc: Jim Ryan <jimdr...@gmail.com> Subject: RE: OFA EWG Meeting: Monday, Nov 21, 2019 - 9:00 am PST - Minutes Arlin - Thanks for the opportunity to talk with the EWG this morning. Do you think ULPs can be included as either middleware or part of the application layer? From: Davis, Arlin R <arlin.r.da...@intel.com<mailto:arlin.r.da...@intel.com>> Sent: Monday, October 21, 2019 4:33 PM To: 'ewg@lists.openfabrics.org' <ewg@lists.openfabrics.org<mailto:ewg@lists.openfabrics.org>> Cc: Paul Grun <g...@cray.com<mailto:g...@cray.com>>; Jim Ryan <jimdr...@gmail.com<mailto:jimdr...@gmail.com>> Subject: OFA EWG Meeting: Monday, Nov 21, 2019 - 9:00 am PST - Minutes Attendees Company Bill Snapko HPE Arlin Davis Intel Jim Ryan OFA Bob Woodruff Intel Henry Orosco Intel Paul Grun Cray Minutes: * OFED-5.3 latest - https://downloads.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-5.3-daily/OFED-5.3-20191018-2019.tgz * Latest drop includes changes to help Huawei integrate new hns drivers. * Vlad hasn't received any backport patches, so we have questions: * Do vendors have resources or a commitment to support OFED going forward? * Chelsio, Cavium, Broadcom, VMware was not on call to give guidance. * Would it be better to target a newer kernel, possibly target 5.5 early next year? * Everyone, please confirm your status as stated or provide an update with resource commitment: * Mellanox - Vlad (most backports complete) * Chelsio - Bharat (no resource commitments for OFED 5.3) * Cavium- Michal (no resources to work, disable for 5.3) * Broadcom - Devesh (resources tight, no ETA for backports) * VMware - Adit (new driver patches targeted for 5.5, not ready for 5.3) * Huawei - Lijun Ou (working with Vlad on 5.3 and backports) * Intel (i40iw) - Henry (5.3 support only, no backports supported) * Technical Program Committee ask - themes for 2020 * Paul presented a new themes proposal, asked for feedback * Good discussion, will take input back to TPC * Note: my connection dropped; was going to suggest ULP's be added to the picture. * any other input I need to capture in EWG minutes? Please correct/add anything I missed. Regards, Arlin
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