Thanks. When can we have the SA features, very soon, long time, or never ?
--CQ > -----Original Message----- > From: Hal Rosenstock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 10:02 AM > To: Tang, Changqing > Cc: Erez Zilber; Tziporet Koren; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > general@lists.openfabrics.org > Subject: RE: [ofa-general] Re: [ewg] OFED March 24 meeting > summary on OFED 1.4 plans > > On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 14:53 +0000, Tang, Changqing wrote: > > One other thing I hope to talk is some fabric query functionalities > > for normal user, not only just for root. This is at IB > verbs level, not rdma_cm level. > > > > for example, in MPI, process A know the HCA guid on another node. > > After running for some time, the switch is restarted for > some reason, and the whole fabric is re-configured. > > > > Now process A wants to know if the port lid on another node has > > changed or not, it knows the HCA guid, is there any > function to query this ? > > > I know as root, we can use the mad/umad library to do this kind of > > query, I want to do such query in MPI, which is a normal user. > > In the IB arch, there are SA registrations and queries for > the specific example you used. However, these are not > directly exposed to Linux user space directly (for the normal > user as opposed to MAD user (note there are some difficulties > in making this available to the normal user)) (at least not > yet AFAIK). While these are not (direct) fabric query (really > SA query), they serve the same function in a different way. > > -- Hal > > > --CQ Tang, HP-MPI > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Erez > > > Zilber > > > Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 8:51 AM > > > To: Tziporet Koren > > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; general@lists.openfabrics.org > > > Subject: [ofa-general] Re: [ewg] OFED March 24 meeting summary on > > > OFED 1.4 plans > > > > > > > > > > > *OFED 1.4:* > > > > 1. Kernel base: since we target 1.4 release to Sep we > target the > > > > kernel base to be 2.6.27 > > > > This is a good target, but we may need to stay with > > > 2.6.26 if the > > > > kernel progress will not be aligned. > > > > > > > > 2. Suggestions for new features: > > > > > > > > * NFS-RDMA > > > > * Verbs: Reliable Multicast (to be presented at Sonoma) > > > > * SDP - Zero copy (There was a question on IPv6 support > > > - seems no > > > > one interested for now) > > > > * IPoIB - continue with performance enhancements > > > > * Xsigo new virtual NIC > > > > * New vendor HW support - non was reported so far (IBM > > > and Chelsio > > > > - do you have something?) > > > > * OpenSM: > > > > o Incremental routing > > > > o Temporary SA DB - to answer queries and a heavy > > > sweep is done > > > > o APM - disjoint paths (?) > > > > o MKey manager (?) > > > > o Sasha to send more management features > > > > * MPI: > > > > o Open MPI 1.3 > > > > o APM support in MPI > > > > o mvapich ??? > > > > * uDAPl > > > > o Extensions for new APIs (like XRC) - ? > > > > o uDAPL provider for interop between Windows & Linux > > > > o 1.2 and 2.0 will stay > > > > > > > > > > As I wrote in an earlier discussion (~2 months ago), we > plan to add > > > tgt (SCSI target) with iSCSI over iSER (and TCP of > > > course) support. The git tree for tgt already exists on the ofa > > > server. > > > > > > Erez > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > general mailing list > > > general@lists.openfabrics.org > > > http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general > > > > > > To unsubscribe, please visit > > > http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > ewg mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ewg > > _______________________________________________ general mailing list general@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
