Hi All, On next Monday we will have the first meeting to close OFED 1.3 features and schedule. As a preparation I send here the list of features we already reviewed in Sonoma, and other features I see in progress on the general list discussions. I know this is a long mail :-( but I ask each of the maintainers/customers to review this list and send comments and other requests.
There are some ULPs that I placed "?" and the owner should review and reply with the plans. Thanks, Tziporet Main New Features ============== Base kernel: 2.6.23 (we will start with 2.6.22 but will move to 2.6.23) Install: * Minimize integration effort into OS distribution * Break the packages RPMs (work with Novell and Redhat) Package: * Sources arrangement for the end user (for the labs) * Reduce compilation warnings QoS: * OSM * CM & CMA * ULPs: SDP, SRP, IPoIB, RDS? Core: * Updated SA cache * User space events registration * Preparations for IB routers libibverbs: * New verbs: * Scalable Reliable Connected Transport (with Mellanox ConnectX) * Shared Send Queue * Reliable Multicast ? Management: * Multiple partitions * OpenSM * More routing performance improvements * Even more speedups * Better packaging/installation "Native" daemon mode * Performance management * Quality of Service manager: Based on IBTA annex * More diagnostics - Hal please update ULPs: * IPoIB: NAPI; CM in GA; Bonding in GA * NFS over RDMA integration * RDS: RDMA API (using FMRs); GA quality with Oracle 11 * SDP: Keepalive; Asynch IO (Zero Copy) * SRP: HA in GA * VNIC: ? Qlogic - please update * iSER: ? Voltaire - please update * uDAPL - ? Arlin please update iWARP: (Steve please update if needed) * iwarp-specific verbs * iwarp-specific async events * API for MPA options (CRC/Markers) * API for streaming mode IO (needed for compliant iSER) * Possibly other ULPs (RDS, SDP, iSER) MPIs: Integrate the new MPI releases that are on time for OFED 1.3 * Jeff - please update about Open MPI * DK: Please update regarding MVAPICH and MVAPICH2 OFED 1.3 System Matrix * CPU Arch: X86, x86_64, PPC64, ia64 * kernel.org: kernel 2.6.23 * Novell: SLES 10; SLES 10 SP1 * Redhat: RHEL 4 (up4 and up5); RHEL 5 (can we drop RHEL4up4 since up6 will probably be out till this release is out?) * Free distros (Fedora, SuSE Pro, Ubuntu) - basic testing only Tziporet Koren Software Director Mellanox Technologies mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel +972-4-9097200, ext 380
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