On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 14:56, Roland Dreier wrote: > As we enter the second week of the 2.6.17 merge window, I thought it > might be helpful to give an update on what I'm thinking about the > remaining pending pieces. This is really to stimulate discussion -- > if there's something that you think really should (or shouldn't) be > merged, let me know. > > Of course bug fixes are always welcome and can be merged pretty much > any time -- that's the whole point of the stabilization period after > the merge window. > > * PathScale ipath driver. In my git tree at > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband.git ipath > > There is still ia64 build breakage and a lot of sparse endian > annotations to clean up before it's mergeable. Also, there are two > issues I still see: > > - Working around the IB midlayer SMA (subnet management agent) / > implementation with a character device when ib_mad isn't loaded. > Maybe I'm off-base here objecting to this. Hal and Sean, as the > ib_mad guys, I'd be especially interested in your opinion of this. > > - The driver depends on 64BIT && PCI_MSI, and is basically > x86_64-only for practical purposes. I think this is OK as far as > a merge goes, but it would be nice to be able to use a PCIe > device on any system with PCIe slots... > > * RDMA CM. In my git tree at > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband.git rdma_cm > > I think this is OK to merge, but I don't see much pull to get it in > right now. There are three consumers on the horizon: > > - userspace RDMA CM, which exports the abstraction to userspace. > The feeling is that this interface needs more time to mature. > > - NFS/RDMA. Not ready to merge right now. > > - iSER. Maybe ready to merge -- I haven't heard anything recently. > > My feeling is that without someone making a case for why this > should go in now, I'm going to hold off. > > * IPoIB tunables. This is probably OK but I haven't seen any patches > yet, so we're running out time. > > * SRP FMRs. I have a patch that I'm pretty happy with now, so I > think this will go in. This will need a lot of testing, or we may > have to turn it off by default for 2.6.17 final > > So if you care about any of this, let me know what you think. And if > there's something not on this list and not in > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband.git > for-2.6.17 > > please make sure I know about it, or it won't get merged.
There is a pending change on additional management classes to be supported for RMPP which should go upstream. -- Hal > Thanks, > Roland > _______________________________________________ > openib-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general > > To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
