Re: [ewg] Re: [ofa-general] OFED Jan 28 meeting summary on RC3 readiness

2008-01-31 Thread Kossey, Robert
Yes this is better, I have no particular objections to these changes and 
appreciate your efforts to hold the line on the OFED 1.3 schedule.


Thanks,
Bob

Tziporet Koren wrote:




The main reason is not the bugs but the features supported by IBM - CM
support for non SRQ and 4K MTU

I see that these are important for IBM (see other mails)

Another thing we can do in order not to delay the release is insert the
changes tomorrow (immediately after RC3 is out) and do RC4 next week
(instead of 2 weeks between every RC), and RC5 the week after.
In this way we will have enough time for testing and if we find some bug
we can fix then in RC5

Is this better?

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Re: [ewg] Re: [ofa-general] OFED Jan 28 meeting summary on RC3 readiness

2008-01-31 Thread Parks Fields

At 09:16 PM 1/30/2008, Chet Mehta wrote:


Robert,

In response to your question..
 A more general question I would like to ask the group is how many 
people use OFED from the RH or SUSE distros as
 is, as compared with using OFED releases from other sources like 
the IB vendors, or building their own from
 openfabrics.org?  We use RH distros, but to this point, the OFED 
support provided in RH distros has lagged
 behind the latest releases available from openfabrics.org.  This 
is not to fault Red Hat, but OFED is still
 changing too rapidly, with minor point releases and bug fixes, 
for a distro to keep up.  I think many of us hope
 that someday that will not be the case, but appears to be true 
for the foreseeable future.  Right now, our mode
 of operation is to remove whatever IB support comes in the distro 
and replace it, so it does not help us to

 delay  OFED 1.3 to get a particular bug fix in a distro.



We have found that there are some vendors who dictate that they will 
only support a Distro EX: RHXXX.   Then if you layer the latest OFED 
on top, then the support is nullified. Or to get any bug fixes or 
support you have to uninstall the what you did and repeat the 
bug/error. SO I think it is very important to keep the Distros very 
close the latest OFED stack.





I believe the question that should be asked is 'How many IB 
customers would like to use the OFED distribution if provided by the 
distro?  The answer at least for the customer set we deal with is 
pretty much unanimous. The fact is that customers are already 
dealing with a distro for their base OS so obtaining the 
interconnect code  support from the same sources is highly 
desirable. When OpenIB was new (in 2004/5) and common IB code was 
still in its infancy, the customer set was tolerant of 'build your 
own' or vendor provided distribution mechanism. However if IB is to 
become a ubiquitous interconnect, we in OFA have to strive to tailor 
our deliverables to meet distro requirements. Until we do that, IB 
will have difficultly gaining broader market acceptance.


Just my perspective.

:Chet.
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Re: [ewg] Re: [ofa-general] OFED Jan 28 meeting summary on RC3 readiness

2008-01-31 Thread Kossey, Robert
Conversely, there are some vendors who will *not* support OFED from a 
distro, but only a version they supply and control.  The customers I 
work with are more sensitive to performance, as well as quick turnaround 
for bug fixes, so having the latest releases, and being able to update 
them quickly is critical. 
I agree that for other customers, a more slowly changing supported stack 
is suitable.  These may also be the same customers more likely to use 
10GE.  I agree more discussion and adjustment is needed for OFED to be 
able to balance the needs of the spectrum of users, from the latest 
kernel.org users, IB vendor based users and distro based users.


Bob

Parks Fields wrote:

At 09:16 PM 1/30/2008, Chet Mehta wrote:


Robert,

In response to your question..
 A more general question I would like to ask the group is how many 
people use OFED from the RH or SUSE distros as
 is, as compared with using OFED releases from other sources like 
the IB vendors, or building their own from  
 openfabrics.org?  We use RH distros, but to this point, the OFED 
support provided in RH distros has lagged
 behind the latest releases available from openfabrics.org.  This is 
not to fault Red Hat, but OFED is still
 changing too rapidly, with minor point releases and bug fixes, for 
a distro to keep up.  I think many of us hope
 that someday that will not be the case, but appears to be true for 
the foreseeable future.  Right now, our mode
 of operation is to remove whatever IB support comes in the distro 
and replace it, so it does not help us to
 delay  OFED 1.3 to get a particular bug fix in a distro. 



We have found that there are some vendors who dictate that they will 
only support a Distro EX: RHXXX.   Then if you layer the latest OFED 
on top, then the support is nullified. Or to get any bug fixes or 
support you have to uninstall the what you did and repeat the 
bug/error. SO I think it is very important to keep the Distros very 
close the latest OFED stack.





I believe the question that should be asked is 'How many IB 
customers would like to use the OFED distribution if provided by the 
distro?  The answer at least for the customer set we deal with is 
pretty much unanimous. The fact is that customers are already dealing 
with a distro for their base OS so obtaining the interconnect code  
support from the same sources is highly desirable. When OpenIB was 
new (in 2004/5) and common IB code was still in its infancy, the 
customer set was tolerant of 'build your own' or vendor provided 
distribution mechanism. However if IB is to become a ubiquitous 
interconnect, we in OFA have to strive to tailor our deliverables to 
meet distro requirements. Until we do that, IB will have difficultly 
gaining broader market acceptance.


Just my perspective.

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Re: [ewg] Re: [ofa-general] OFED Jan 28 meeting summary on RC3 readiness

2008-01-30 Thread Tziporet Koren

Doug Ledford wrote:


Hmmm...I'd like to put my $.02 in here.  I don't have any visibility
into what drives the OFED schedule, so I have no clue as to why people
don't want to slip the schedule for this change.  I'm sure you guys have
your reasons.  However, I also happen to be a consumer of this code, and
I know for a fact that no one has gotten my input on this issue.  So,
the deal is that I'm currently integrating OFED 1.3 into what will be
RHEL5.2.  The RHEL5.2 freeze date has already passed, but in order to
keep what finally goes out from being too stale, I'm being allowed to
submit the OFED-1.3-rc1 code prior to freeze, and then update to
OFED-1.3 final during our beta test process.  What this means, is that
anything you punt from 1.3 to 1.3.1, you are also punting out of RHEL5.2
and RHEL4.7.  So, that being said, there's a whole trickle down effect
with various groups that would really like to be able to use 5.2 out of
the box that may prefer a slip in 1.3 so that this can be part of it
instead of punting to 1.3.1.  I'm not saying this will change your mind,
but I'm sure it wasn't part of the decision process before, so I'm
bringing it up.
  
Thanks for the input (BTW you are welcome to join our weekly meetings 
and give us feedback online)
I think it is important to make sure RH new versions will include best 
OFED release


This my suggestion is:

   * Delay 1.3 release in a week
   * Do RC4 next week - Feb 6
   * Add RC5 on Feb 18 - this will be the GOLD version
   * GA release on Feb 25


All - please reply if this is acceptable



760 major   [EMAIL PROTECTED]  UDP performance on Rx is lower
than Tx  - for 1.3.1 
761 major   [EMAIL PROTECTED]  Poor and jittery UDP
performance at small messages  - for 1.3.1 
  


Ditto for requesting these two be in 1.3.  We've already had customers
bring up the UDP performance issue in our previous releases.
  


We will push some fixes of these to RC4 if the above plan is accepted

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RE: [ewg] Re: [ofa-general] OFED Jan 28 meeting summary on RC3 readiness

2008-01-30 Thread Tang, Changqing

When do you pack the official RC3 ?  Thanks.


--CQ

 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
 Tziporet Koren
 Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 10:40 AM
 To: Doug Ledford
 Cc: ewg@lists.openfabrics.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: [ewg] Re: [ofa-general] OFED Jan 28 meeting
 summary on RC3 readiness

 Doug Ledford wrote:
 
  Hmmm...I'd like to put my $.02 in here.  I don't have any
 visibility
  into what drives the OFED schedule, so I have no clue as to
 why people
  don't want to slip the schedule for this change.  I'm sure you guys
  have your reasons.  However, I also happen to be a consumer of this
  code, and I know for a fact that no one has gotten my input on this
  issue.  So, the deal is that I'm currently integrating OFED
 1.3 into
  what will be RHEL5.2.  The RHEL5.2 freeze date has already
 passed, but
  in order to keep what finally goes out from being too
 stale, I'm being
  allowed to submit the OFED-1.3-rc1 code prior to freeze, and then
  update to
  OFED-1.3 final during our beta test process.  What this
 means, is that
  anything you punt from 1.3 to 1.3.1, you are also punting out of
  RHEL5.2 and RHEL4.7.  So, that being said, there's a whole trickle
  down effect with various groups that would really like to
 be able to
  use 5.2 out of the box that may prefer a slip in 1.3 so
 that this can
  be part of it instead of punting to 1.3.1.  I'm not saying
 this will
  change your mind, but I'm sure it wasn't part of the
 decision process
  before, so I'm bringing it up.
 
 Thanks for the input (BTW you are welcome to join our weekly
 meetings and give us feedback online) I think it is important
 to make sure RH new versions will include best OFED release

 This my suggestion is:

 * Delay 1.3 release in a week
 * Do RC4 next week - Feb 6
 * Add RC5 on Feb 18 - this will be the GOLD version
 * GA release on Feb 25


 All - please reply if this is acceptable
 
 
  760 major   [EMAIL PROTECTED]  UDP performance on
 Rx is lower
  than Tx  - for 1.3.1
  761 major   [EMAIL PROTECTED]  Poor and jittery UDP
  performance at small messages  - for 1.3.1
 
 
  Ditto for requesting these two be in 1.3.  We've already
 had customers
  bring up the UDP performance issue in our previous releases.
 
 
 We will push some fixes of these to RC4 if the above plan is accepted

 Tziporet
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[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] OFED Jan 28 meeting summary on RC3 readiness

2008-01-30 Thread Kossey, Robert
I would prefer not to see OFED 1.3 delayed for this.  There will always be 
another bug, so you have to close the release and ship at some point.  In the 
case of these particular bugs, IIRC, the first involved an older HCA that may 
not be widely used.  The other UDP performance bugs do not have any ready fixes 
that I'm aware of.

A more general question I would like to ask the group is how many people use 
OFED from the RH or SUSE distros as is, as compared with using OFED releases 
from other sources like the IB vendors, or building their own from 
openfabrics.org?  We use RH distros, but to this point, the OFED support 
provided in RH distros has lagged behind the latest releases available from 
openfabrics.org.  This is not to fault Red Hat, but OFED is still changing too 
rapidly, with minor point releases and bug fixes, for a distro to keep up.  I 
think many of us hope that someday that will not be the case, but appears to be 
true for the foreseeable future.  Right now, our mode of operation is to remove 
whatever IB support comes in the distro and replace it, so it does not help us 
to delay  OFED 1.3 to get a particular bug fix in a distro.

Bob

 -Original Message-
 ...
 Doug Ledford wrote:
 
  Hmmm...I'd like to put my $.02 in here.  I don't have any
 visibility
  into what drives the OFED schedule, so I have no clue as to
 why people
  don't want to slip the schedule for this change.  I'm sure you guys
  have your reasons.  However, I also happen to be a consumer of this
  code, and I know for a fact that no one has gotten my input on this
  issue.  So, the deal is that I'm currently integrating OFED
 1.3 into
  what will be RHEL5.2.  The RHEL5.2 freeze date has already
 passed, but
  in order to keep what finally goes out from being too
 stale, I'm being
  allowed to submit the OFED-1.3-rc1 code prior to freeze, and then
  update to
  OFED-1.3 final during our beta test process.  What this
 means, is that
  anything you punt from 1.3 to 1.3.1, you are also punting out of
  RHEL5.2 and RHEL4.7.  So, that being said, there's a whole trickle
  down effect with various groups that would really like to
 be able to
  use 5.2 out of the box that may prefer a slip in 1.3 so
 that this can
  be part of it instead of punting to 1.3.1.  I'm not saying
 this will
  change your mind, but I'm sure it wasn't part of the
 decision process
  before, so I'm bringing it up.
 
 Thanks for the input (BTW you are welcome to join our weekly
 meetings and give us feedback online) I think it is important
 to make sure RH new versions will include best OFED release

 This my suggestion is:

 * Delay 1.3 release in a week
 * Do RC4 next week - Feb 6
 * Add RC5 on Feb 18 - this will be the GOLD version
 * GA release on Feb 25


 All - please reply if this is acceptable
 
 
  760 major   eli at mellanox.co.il  UDP performance on
 Rx is lower
  than Tx  - for 1.3.1
  761 major   eli at mellanox.co.il  Poor and jittery UDP
  performance at small messages  - for 1.3.1
 
 
  Ditto for requesting these two be in 1.3.  We've already
 had customers
  bring up the UDP performance issue in our previous releases.
 
 
 We will push some fixes of these to RC4 if the above plan is accepted

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Re: [ewg] Re: [ofa-general] OFED Jan 28 meeting summary on RC3 readiness

2008-01-30 Thread Shirley Ma





[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/30/2008 08:40:10 AM:

 Doug Ledford wrote:
 
  Hmmm...I'd like to put my $.02 in here.  I don't have any visibility
  into what drives the OFED schedule, so I have no clue as to why people
  don't want to slip the schedule for this change.  I'm sure you guys
have
  your reasons.  However, I also happen to be a consumer of this code,
and
  I know for a fact that no one has gotten my input on this issue.  So,
  the deal is that I'm currently integrating OFED 1.3 into what will be
  RHEL5.2.  The RHEL5.2 freeze date has already passed, but in order to
  keep what finally goes out from being too stale, I'm being allowed to
  submit the OFED-1.3-rc1 code prior to freeze, and then update to
  OFED-1.3 final during our beta test process.  What this means, is that
  anything you punt from 1.3 to 1.3.1, you are also punting out of
RHEL5.2
  and RHEL4.7.  So, that being said, there's a whole trickle down effect
  with various groups that would really like to be able to use 5.2 out of
  the box that may prefer a slip in 1.3 so that this can be part of it
  instead of punting to 1.3.1.  I'm not saying this will change your
mind,
  but I'm sure it wasn't part of the decision process before, so I'm
  bringing it up.
 
 Thanks for the input (BTW you are welcome to join our weekly meetings
 and give us feedback online)
 I think it is important to make sure RH new versions will include best
 OFED release

 This my suggestion is:

 * Delay 1.3 release in a week
 * Do RC4 next week - Feb 6
 * Add RC5 on Feb 18 - this will be the GOLD version
 * GA release on Feb 25


 All - please reply if this is acceptable
 
 
  760 major   [EMAIL PROTECTED]  UDP performance on Rx is lower
  than Tx  - for 1.3.1
  761 major   [EMAIL PROTECTED]  Poor and jittery UDP
  performance at small messages  - for 1.3.1
 
 
  Ditto for requesting these two be in 1.3.  We've already had customers
  bring up the UDP performance issue in our previous releases.
 
 
 We will push some fixes of these to RC4 if the above plan is accepted

 Tziporet

  Is also that possible to include some delayed features which are
planning to be in later release as well? Like IPoIB noSRQ, 4K mtu etc, we
do have some customers request already. IPoIB noSRQ has been in upper
stream already, but it's not in 2.6.24, it will be in 2.6.25. 4K mtu patch
is under review. We have passed our tests. I will post a new version
against RC3, and split the patch into several for 2.6.25 upper stream
submission.

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Re: [ewg] Re: [ofa-general] OFED Jan 28 meeting summary on RC3 readiness

2008-01-30 Thread Tziporet Koren

Tang, Changqing wrote:

When do you pack the official RC3 ?  Thanks.

  


Already packed - mail will go out soon

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Re: [ewg] Re: [ofa-general] OFED Jan 28 meeting summary on RC3 readiness

2008-01-30 Thread Tziporet Koren

Kossey, Robert wrote:

I would prefer not to see OFED 1.3 delayed for this.  There will always be 
another bug, so you have to close the release and ship at some point.  In the 
case of these particular bugs, IIRC, the first involved an older HCA that may 
not be widely used.  The other UDP performance bugs do not have any ready fixes 
that I'm aware of.

A more general question I would like to ask the group is how many people use 
OFED from the RH or SUSE distros as is, as compared with using OFED releases 
from other sources like the IB vendors, or building their own from 
openfabrics.org?  We use RH distros, but to this point, the OFED support 
provided in RH distros has lagged behind the latest releases available from 
openfabrics.org.  This is not to fault Red Hat, but OFED is still changing too 
rapidly, with minor point releases and bug fixes, for a distro to keep up.  I 
think many of us hope that someday that will not be the case, but appears to be 
true for the foreseeable future.  Right now, our mode of operation is to remove 
whatever IB support comes in the distro and replace it, so it does not help us 
to delay  OFED 1.3 to get a particular bug fix in a distro.

  
The main reason is not the bugs but the features supported by IBM - CM 
support for non SRQ and 4K MTU


I see that these are important for IBM (see other mails)

Another thing we can do in order not to delay the release is insert the 
changes tomorrow (immediately after RC3 is out) and do RC4 next week 
(instead of 2 weeks between every RC), and RC5 the week after.
In this way we will have enough time for testing and if we find some bug 
we can fix then in RC5


Is this better?

Tziporet

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Re: [ewg] Re: [ofa-general] OFED Jan 28 meeting summary on RC3 readiness

2008-01-30 Thread Betsy Zeller
One of the things driving the OFED 1.3 date is that OFED 1.3 has to be
released before the Plugfest, which starts on March 10. I can deal  with
slipping OFED GA date to Feb 25, but I really don't think we should let
it slip into March. How confident are the developers that, if they get
the extra week, there won't be further slippage?

Doug - thanks very much for letting us know the plans for RHEL5 U2 -
it's great news that OFED 1.3 (final release) will be included.

- Betsy

On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 18:40 +0200, Tziporet Koren wrote:
 Doug Ledford wrote:
 
  Hmmm...I'd like to put my $.02 in here.  I don't have any visibility
  into what drives the OFED schedule, so I have no clue as to why people
  don't want to slip the schedule for this change.  I'm sure you guys have
  your reasons.  However, I also happen to be a consumer of this code, and
  I know for a fact that no one has gotten my input on this issue.  So,
  the deal is that I'm currently integrating OFED 1.3 into what will be
  RHEL5.2.  The RHEL5.2 freeze date has already passed, but in order to
  keep what finally goes out from being too stale, I'm being allowed to
  submit the OFED-1.3-rc1 code prior to freeze, and then update to
  OFED-1.3 final during our beta test process.  What this means, is that
  anything you punt from 1.3 to 1.3.1, you are also punting out of RHEL5.2
  and RHEL4.7.  So, that being said, there's a whole trickle down effect
  with various groups that would really like to be able to use 5.2 out of
  the box that may prefer a slip in 1.3 so that this can be part of it
  instead of punting to 1.3.1.  I'm not saying this will change your mind,
  but I'm sure it wasn't part of the decision process before, so I'm
  bringing it up.

 Thanks for the input (BTW you are welcome to join our weekly meetings 
 and give us feedback online)
 I think it is important to make sure RH new versions will include best 
 OFED release
 
 This my suggestion is:
 
 * Delay 1.3 release in a week
 * Do RC4 next week - Feb 6
 * Add RC5 on Feb 18 - this will be the GOLD version
 * GA release on Feb 25
 
 
 All - please reply if this is acceptable
  
 
  760 major   [EMAIL PROTECTED]  UDP performance on Rx is lower
  than Tx  - for 1.3.1 
  761 major   [EMAIL PROTECTED]  Poor and jittery UDP
  performance at small messages  - for 1.3.1 

 
  Ditto for requesting these two be in 1.3.  We've already had customers
  bring up the UDP performance issue in our previous releases.

 
 We will push some fixes of these to RC4 if the above plan is accepted
 
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Re: [ewg] Re: [ofa-general] OFED Jan 28 meeting summary on RC3 readiness

2008-01-30 Thread Chet Mehta
Robert, 

In response to your question..
 A more general question I would like to ask the group is how many people 
use OFED from the RH or SUSE distros as
 is, as compared with using OFED releases from other sources like the IB 
vendors, or building their own from 
 openfabrics.org?  We use RH distros, but to this point, the OFED support 
provided in RH distros has lagged 
 behind the latest releases available from openfabrics.org.  This is not 
to fault Red Hat, but OFED is still 
 changing too rapidly, with minor point releases and bug fixes, for a 
distro to keep up.  I think many of us hope
 that someday that will not be the case, but appears to be true for the 
foreseeable future.  Right now, our mode 
 of operation is to remove whatever IB support comes in the distro and 
replace it, so it does not help us to 
 delay  OFED 1.3 to get a particular bug fix in a distro.

I believe the question that should be asked is 'How many IB customers 
would like to use the OFED distribution if provided by the distro?  The 
answer at least for the customer set we deal with is pretty much 
unanimous. The fact is that customers are already dealing with a distro 
for their base OS so obtaining the interconnect code  support from the 
same sources is highly desirable. When OpenIB was new (in 2004/5) and 
common IB code was still in its infancy, the customer set was tolerant 
of 'build your own' or vendor provided distribution mechanism. However if 
IB is to become a ubiquitous interconnect, we in OFA have to strive to 
tailor our deliverables to meet distro requirements. Until we do that, IB 
will have difficultly gaining broader market acceptance.

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[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] OFED Jan 28 meeting summary on RC3 readiness

2008-01-29 Thread Doug Ledford

On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 14:21 +0200, Tziporet Koren wrote:
 OFED Jan 28 meeting summary on RC3 readiness: 
 =
 
 1. OFED 1.3 readiness toward RC3 this week 
 
   * RC3 is based on the official 2.6.24 release
   * RC3 is expected on Wed
   * RC4 is planned for Feb 13
 
 
 2. All companies update: 
 
   * IBM - ready for RC3
   * Voltaire - ready for RC3
   * Qlogic - ready for RC3; will work on bug 874 
   * Intel - things looks good. Need some uDAPL update from
 Arlin
   * Chelsio - ready for RC3
   * NetEffect - ready for RC3
   * Cisco - reported all issues in bugzilla
   * Mellanox - ready for RC3
   * MPI - all packages are ready
 
 
 3. Request to change IPoIB to support CM without SRQ and 4K MTU 
 
 Decided that we cannot insert such enhancements at this stage
 (RC3 built today) without delaying the release since IPoIB is
 a critical ULP used by all customers.
 
 Since we do not want to delay the release and we wish to have
 a solution for the new IPoIB enhancements we plan to have
 1.3.1 release

Hmmm...I'd like to put my $.02 in here.  I don't have any visibility
into what drives the OFED schedule, so I have no clue as to why people
don't want to slip the schedule for this change.  I'm sure you guys have
your reasons.  However, I also happen to be a consumer of this code, and
I know for a fact that no one has gotten my input on this issue.  So,
the deal is that I'm currently integrating OFED 1.3 into what will be
RHEL5.2.  The RHEL5.2 freeze date has already passed, but in order to
keep what finally goes out from being too stale, I'm being allowed to
submit the OFED-1.3-rc1 code prior to freeze, and then update to
OFED-1.3 final during our beta test process.  What this means, is that
anything you punt from 1.3 to 1.3.1, you are also punting out of RHEL5.2
and RHEL4.7.  So, that being said, there's a whole trickle down effect
with various groups that would really like to be able to use 5.2 out of
the box that may prefer a slip in 1.3 so that this can be part of it
instead of punting to 1.3.1.  I'm not saying this will change your mind,
but I'm sure it wasn't part of the decision process before, so I'm
bringing it up.

 AIs: 
 Tziporet to define the 1.3.1 release (scope of changes,
 schedule etc.) 
 Vlad: open 1_3_1 branch so people will have a place to commit
 changes. We will not start any daily build before 1.3 release
 
 
 3. Review high priority bugs: 
 846 critical[EMAIL PROTECTED]SDP crash on RHEL5
 ppc64 running netserver  - will be debugged
 
 859 critical[EMAIL PROTECTED]  Bonding configuration
 on Sles10 sp1 is not loaded consistently  - fixed 
 863 critical[EMAIL PROTECTED]  ib-bonding won't
 compile for RHEL4 U6   - fixed 
 874 critical[EMAIL PROTECTED]   Intel MPI (IMB test)
 hangs intermittently on the qlogic HCA - will be debugged by
 Qlogic
 
 760 major   [EMAIL PROTECTED]  UDP performance on Rx is lower
 than Tx  - for 1.3.1 
 761 major   [EMAIL PROTECTED]  Poor and jittery UDP
 performance at small messages  - for 1.3.1 

Ditto for requesting these two be in 1.3.  We've already had customers
bring up the UDP performance issue in our previous releases.

 869 major   [EMAIL PROTECTED]mstflint won't build
 on SLES10 x86  - fixed 
 736 major   [EMAIL PROTECTED]   IBV_WC_RETRY_EXC_ERR errors
 with local rdma_reads   - seems a FW issue (Mellanox to
 debug)
 
 767 major   [EMAIL PROTECTED] Non backport Kernels
 that don't build in genalloc cause compile errors for cxgb3 - no fix
 (document)

And we still need to get actual downloads for a number of the srpms in
OFED-1.3.  The various spec files list fictitious tarballs that aren't
actually available on the download server.  While that works for the
rcs, they really need to have a tarball up there for final.

-- 
Doug Ledford [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  GPG KeyID: CFBFF194
  http://people.redhat.com/dledford

Infiniband specific RPMs available at
  http://people.redhat.com/dledford/Infiniband


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