Hi Tziporet,
On 7/16/07, Tziporet Koren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi All,
We have our OFED synch meeting today at 9am PST.
Agenda:
1. Merge the OFED 1.2.1 release with OFED 1.2.c release in August.
2. Agree on OFED 1.3 schedule:
* Feature freeze - Sep 4
* Alpha release - Sep 10
* Beta release - Sep 25
* RC1 - Oct 16
* RC2 - Oct 30
* RC3 - Nov 8 (assuming many of us are at SC07 on the week of Nov
11)
* RC4 - Nov 20
* GA release - Nov 30 (or first week of Dec)
3. Review OFED 1.3 features list:
In last meeting we decided that the schedule is one of the most important
parameters in OFED 1.3.
Thus I divided the features for two categories:
- "must have" features - features that must be ready for the release
(marked with *)
- "optional" features - features that can be included in the release
in case they are ready according to the schedule
Must have general features:
====================
- Kernel base on 2.6.23 (all new features that will be part of this
kernel will be included in OFED 1.3)
- Install:
- Break the packages RPMs (work with Novell and Redhat) to
minimize integration effort into OS distribution
- Package:
- Sources arrangement for the end user (for the labs)
- New HCAs & RNICs:
- ConnectX support
- Any other new HW?
- QoS: OSM, CM, CMA, ULPs (IPoIB, SDP, SRP)
Other features (must have marked with *)
==============================
- libibverbs: New verbs:
- Scalable Reliable Connected Transport (with Mellanox
ConnectX)*
- Reliable Multicast?
ULPs:
- IPoIB:
- Performance improvements (those that will be stable on time)
- NAPI - done
- SDP:
- * Keepalive
- * AIO
- uDAPL:
- DAT 2.0 support with IB extensions for immediate data,
atomics;
- Add extensions for new verbs (SRCT,RM)
- VNIC:
- GA quality. Not a technology preview version anymore.
- Added support for QLogic EVIC (10 Gbps
Infiniband-to-Ethernet gateway) - in GA
- RDS: RDMA API (using FMRs); GA quality with Oracle 11
- NFSoRDMA integration - pending we have a maintainer
- Management:
- * Multiple partitions via libibumad
- OpenSM
- More routing performance improvements - done
- Even more speedups - done
- Better packaging/installation - done
- "Native" daemon mode - done
- * Performance management
- * Quality of Service manager: Based on IBTA annex
- Enhancements for fat tree routing (non pure tree
support) - done
- More console commands and telnet access to console -
done
- More diagnostics
- ibidsverify.pl: validate LIDs and GUIDs in subnet -
done
- Updated ibnetdiscover format with link width and
speed, and GUIDs - done
- ibnetdiscover grouping support for new Voltaire
chassis - done
- diag updates for IB router support - done
- iblinkinfo.pl: Support peer port link width and speed
validation - done
- ibdatacounters: Add script and man page for subnet
wide data counters saquery enhancements - done
What happened to ibsim ? I thought that was on the list I originally sent.
-- Hal
- iWARP:
- * Chelsio: Get to GA level
- NetEffect: Get the drivers into OFED
Tziporet Koren
Software Director
Mellanox Technologies
mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Tel +972-4-9097200, ext 380
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