On Jun 3, 2014, at 1:37 PM, Anna Schumaker <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 05/29/2014 01:07 PM, Shirley Ma wrote:
>> Attendees:
>> 
>> Jeff Beck (NASA)
>> Yan Burman (Mellanox)
>> Wendy Cheng (Intel)
>> Susan Coulter (LANL)
>> Rupert Dance (Soft Forge)
>> Chuck Lever (Oracle)
>> Doug Ledford (RedHat)
>> Shirley Ma (Oracle)
>> Devesh Sharma (Emulex)
>> Anna Schumaker (Net App)
>> Steve Wise (OpenGridComputing, Chelsio)
>> 
>> Moderator:
>> Shirley Ma (Oracle)
>> 
>> NFSoRDMA developers bi-weekly meeting is to help organizing NFSoRDMA 
>> development and test effort from different resources to speed up NFSoRDMA 
>> upstream kernel work and NFSoRDMA diagnosing/debugging tools development. 
>> Hopefully the quality of NFSoRDMA upstream patches can be improved by being 
>> tested by a quorum of HW vendors.
>> 
>> Today's meeting notes:
>> 1. OFED release update from Rupert Dance through email:
>> 
>> a. OFED 3.12 was released yesterday without any patch from Chuck's git tree, 
>> one of the reason these patches haven't upstream yet. There were a number of 
>> new bugs filed on NFSRDMA (2489 and 2490).
>> http://bugs.openfabrics.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2489
>> http://bugs.openfabrics.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2490
>> 
>> b. Jeff Becker has pulled all of the patches from Chuck's git tree and made 
>> backports in his local branch of OFED 3.12. He has begun testing and is 
>> seeing good results so far.
>> 
>> c. OFED next release will be OFED 3.12-1 and it will be including all these 
>> updates along with support for RHEL 7.0 and Intel's OFED MIC.
>> 
>> 2. NFSoRDMA support with soft RoCE and Soft iWARP
>> 
>> There were some discussions regarding whether removing RPCRDMA_REGISTER 
>> support (one of Chuck's patchset) would impact any other components in the 
>> stack. So far soft RoCE hasn't been upstreamed yet.There was a broad 
>> consensus not to support out-of-tree providers unless an issue also affects 
>> in-tree providers. NFSoRDMA will follow kernel development policy, all work 
>> should be based upon upstream kernel. However Chuck Level will check Soft 
>> RoCE plan, Steve Wise will check soft iWARP plan to make sure nothing will 
>> be broken in both kernel and OFED release. 
>> 
>> 3. Update on testing NFSoRDMA client patches:
>> 
>> Devesh Sharma, Doug Ledford, Chuck Lever, Steve Wise all have tested Chuck 
>> git tree (up to last weeks patchsets) on different platforms with various 
>> vendor's HCAs. The test showed the stack pretty reliable for both NFSv3 and 
>> NFSv4. However NFSv4.1 hit server crash. (NFSv4.1 hasn't support yet).
>> 
>> Steve Wise's test covers iWARP Chelsio
>> Devesh Sharma's test covers Emulex
>> Chuck Lever/Shirley Ma's test covers Mellanox
>> Doug Ledford's test covers various platforms and combination of HCAs 
>> (Interoperability test).
>> Jeff Beck's test covers OFED release (backport)
>> Rupert Dance's (IOL) team test covers various platforms and combination of 
>> HCAs as well.
>> 
>> The test coverage should be good enough for NFSoRDMA client patchsets to be 
>> merged to upstream by Anna and Trond.
>> 
>> Devesh is looking for performance benchmark tools. IOzone is recommended. 
>> Anna is going to send more performance tools.
>> 
>> A place to save test results as scratch sheets has been discussed so it will 
>> be easy to track the test history for any regressions. Anna will help to 
>> figure it out.
>> 
>> A couple of new bugs have been filed to track existing issues. Devesh had 
>> hit a bug in dbench test, which Steve Wise already worked on it.
>> 
>> https://bugzilla.linux-nfs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=255
>> 
>> Klemens Senn has reported a soft lockup in unloading kernel module. Shirley 
>> has tried to reproduce this problem with Linux server, Solaris client, it 
>> didn't hit any issue. So it's a problem between Linux client and server.
>> 
>> https://bugzilla.linux-nfs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252
>> 
>> 
>> 4. Steve shared his findings on some bug he has bee working on -- 
>> refactoring patchset.
>> 
>> 5. Followups update from last week
>> a. Linux server maintenance is still in unresolved status.
>> 
>> b. NFSoRDMA debugging and diagnosis tools?
>> Yan has made some progress on NFSoRDMA wireshark dissector. Selecting 
>> connection is not as simple as TCP, Yan has tried to use QP number/RDMA 
>> establish status to build the connection. Chuck suggested to try RPC XID 
>> field.
>> 
>> c. NFSoRDMA virtualization validation:
>> Shirley has set up KVM guest with Mellanox Connect2 SRIOV. A panic occurred 
>> right away during mount, the panic is different with XEN domU guest.
>> 
>> Next meeting topics proposal:
>> 1. Follow up the work has been discussed from this meeting.
>> 
>> 2. Walk through some of the stories on pivotal, link is as below:
>> https://www.pivotaltracker.com/s/projects/958376
>> 
>> 3. Invite some of the developers to discuss some of their requirements and 
>> features.
>> 
>> Meeting time: one hour discussion every other Wed (next meeting will be
>> on 6/11). A reminder will be sent out to both linux-nfs and linux-rdma
>> mailing list:
>> 
>> 6/11/2014
>> @8:00am PST
>> @9:00am MST
>> @10:00am CST
>> @11:00am EST
>> @Bangalore @9:00pm
>> @Israel @6:00pm
>> 
>> Duration: 1 hour
>> 
>> Call-in number:
>> Israel: +972 37219638
>> Bangalore: +91 8039890080 (180030109800)
>> US: 8666824770,  408-7744073
>> Conference Code: 2308833
>> Passcode: 63767362 (it's NFSoRDMA, in case you couldn't remember)
>> 
>> Thanks everyone for joining the call and providing valuable inputs/work to 
>> the community to make NFSoRDMA better.
>> 
>> Shirley
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Attendees:
>> 
>> Jeff Beck (NASA)
>> Yan Burman (Mellanox)
>> Wendy Cheng (Intel)
>> Susan Coulter (LANL)
>> Rupert Dance (Soft Forge)
>> Chuck Lever (Oracle)
>> Doug Ledford (RedHat)
>> Shirley Ma (Oracle)
>> Devesh Sharma (Emulex)
>> Anna Schumaker (Net App)
>> Steve Wise (OpenGridComputing, Chelsio)
>> 
>> Moderator:
>> Shirley Ma (Oracle)
>> 
>> NFSoRDMA developers bi-weekly meeting is to help organizing NFSoRDMA 
>> development and test effort from different resources to speed up NFSoRDMA 
>> upstream kernel work and NFSoRDMA diagnosing/debugging tools development. 
>> Hopefully the quality of NFSoRDMA upstream patches can be improved by being 
>> tested by a quorum of HW vendors.
>> 
>> Today's meeting notes:
>> 1. OFED release update from Rupert Dance through email:
>> 
>> a. OFED 3.12 was released yesterday without any patch from Chuck's git tree, 
>> one of the reason these patches haven't upstream yet. There were a number of 
>> new bugs filed on NFSRDMA (2489 and 2490).
>> http://bugs.openfabrics.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2489
>> http://bugs.openfabrics.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2490
>> 
>> b. Jeff Becker has pulled all of the patches from Chuck's git tree and made 
>> backports in his local branch of OFED 3.12. He has begun testing and is 
>> seeing good results so far.
>> 
>> c. OFED next release will be OFED 3.12-1 and it will be including all these 
>> updates along with support for RHEL 7.0 and Intel's OFED MIC.
>> 
>> 2. NFSoRDMA support with soft RoCE and Soft iWARP
>> 
>> There were some discussions regarding whether removing RPCRDMA_REGISTER 
>> support (one of Chuck's patchset) would impact any other components in the 
>> stack. So far soft RoCE hasn't been upstreamed yet.There was a broad 
>> consensus not to support out-of-tree providers unless an issue also affects 
>> in-tree providers. NFSoRDMA will follow kernel development policy, all work 
>> should be based upon upstream kernel. However Chuck Level will check Soft 
>> RoCE plan, Steve Wise will check soft iWARP plan to make sure nothing will 
>> be broken in both kernel and OFED release. 
>> 
>> 3. Update on testing NFSoRDMA client patches:
>> 
>> Devesh Sharma, Doug Ledford, Chuck Lever, Steve Wise all have tested Chuck 
>> git tree (up to last weeks patchsets) on different platforms with various 
>> vendor's HCAs. The test showed the stack pretty reliable for both NFSv3 and 
>> NFSv4. However NFSv4.1 hit server crash. (NFSv4.1 hasn't support yet).
>> 
>> Steve Wise's test covers iWARP Chelsio
>> Devesh Sharma's test covers Emulex
>> Chuck Lever/Shirley Ma's test covers Mellanox
>> Doug Ledford's test covers various platforms and combination of HCAs 
>> (Interoperability test).
>> Jeff Beck's test covers OFED release (backport)
>> Rupert Dance's (IOL) team test covers various platforms and combination of 
>> HCAs as well.
>> 
>> The test coverage should be good enough for NFSoRDMA client patchsets to be 
>> merged to upstream by Anna and Trond.
>> 
>> Devesh is looking for performance benchmark tools. IOzone is recommended. 
>> Anna is going to send more performance tools.
>> 
>> A place to save test results as scratch sheets has been discussed so it will 
>> be easy to track the test history for any regressions. Anna will help to 
>> figure it out.
>> 
>> A couple of new bugs have been filed to track existing issues. Devesh had 
>> hit a bug in dbench test, which Steve Wise already worked on it.
>> 
>> https://bugzilla.linux-nfs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=255
>> 
>> Klemens Senn has reported a soft lockup in unloading kernel module. Shirley 
>> has tried to reproduce this problem with Linux server, Solaris client, it 
>> didn't hit any issue. So it's a problem between Linux client and server.
>> 
>> https://bugzilla.linux-nfs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252
>> 
>> 
>> 4. Steve shared his findings on some bug he has bee working on -- 
>> refactoring patchset.
>> 
>> 5. Followups update from last week
>> a. Linux server maintenance is still in unresolved status.
>> 
>> b. NFSoRDMA debugging and diagnosis tools?
>> Yan has made some progress on NFSoRDMA wireshark dissector. Selecting 
>> connection is not as simple as TCP, Yan has tried to use QP number/RDMA 
>> establish status to build the connection. Chuck suggested to try RPC XID 
>> field.
>> 
>> c. NFSoRDMA virtualization validation:
>> Shirley has set up KVM guest with Mellanox Connect2 SRIOV. A panic occurred 
>> right away during mount, the panic is different with XEN domU guest.
>> 
>> Next meeting topics proposal:
>> 1. Follow up the work has been discussed from this meeting.
> 
> I mentioned nfsometer for performance testing during the last meeting.  
> Anybody interested can check out a copy here: 
> git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/dros/nfsometer.git

I added this to the NFS/RDMA wiki home page:

 http://wiki.linux-nfs.org/wiki/index.php/NfsRdmaClient/Home

--
Chuck Lever
chuck[dot]lever[at]oracle[dot]com



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