OFED meeting summary for July 14, 2008 on 1.4 features completeness status ======================================================================== ==
Summary: ======== - Most of components are ready for the feature freeze of OFED 1.4 - We should have alpha release next week. Details: ======== OFED 1.4 feature readiness for the freeze: - Kernel base 2.6.27 (start with 2.6.26) - 2.6.26 done, will move to 2.6.27 when rc1 available - Multi-Protocol support, Eth and IB for ConnectX - all patches submitted, to be merged this week - NFS-RDMA - kernel 2.6.26 done. Distros backports not ready yet. Will start with SLES10 and then RHEL5.1 - iSer Target - on work; merge should start this week - New iWARP verbs (fast memory thru send queue, local invalidate send work requests, Read with invalidate) - done in 2.6.27, will need backports when we move - IPoIB (LRO and RSS) - LRO - in 2.6.27, RSS - patches to be sent this week - RDS iWARP support - In progress. Still need to debug fastreg usage, but first merge has been done into Olaf's tree. - SDP (GA) - patches were sent, merged to OFED tree - Raw QP support with ConnectX - under testing - uDAPL - socket cm for scalability - done. UD extensions will be done end of week. - OpenSM - code freeze of openSM can be later since it's a closed user level apps. - ibnetdiscover library - accelerate other tools. - Congestion Control - code in ibutils done; under testing - MVAPICH 1.1 - Should have tarball by end of the month - MVAPICH2 1.2 - Should have tarball by end of the month - OpenMPI 1.3 - do not yet have beta tarballs for OMPI v1.3. Might be able to get some for the OFED v1.4 - Backports status: - ipath driver - RHEL5, SLES10 and all kernels below 2.6.18 - Qlogic - to be completed by end of the week - NFSoRDMA - we need at least RHEL5 and SLES 10 - Jeff Backer - on work - EHCA: SLES10/SP1/SP2 - IBM - done Other topics: * Woody raised the question of Dev-Con at SC08. Conclusion was that we do not see a need for a special event, but a meeting for one or two hours of all developers that will come to SC08 is a good idea. * New server setup: Jeff updated us that the new server arrived. The request is to move to the new server in 1-2 weeks. Meetings minutes on the web: http://www.openfabrics.org/txt/documentation/linux/EWG_meeting_minutes/ Tziporet _______________________________________________ ewg mailing list ewg@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ewg