Attendees Company Bill Snapko HPE Arlin Davis Intel
Bob Woodruff Intel Rupert Dance SW Forge Vladimir Sokolovsky Mellanox Adit Ranadive VMware Sindhu Devale Intel Minutes: Summary - Decision was made to skip OFED 5.3 and target kernel.org 5.5 in January 2020 * OFED_5.3 - (Oct 18) https://downloads.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-5.3-daily/OFED-5.3-20191018-2019.tgz * This latest build has Huawei driver building successfully in 5.3 kernel. * Vendor email responses to question about 5.3 or 5.5 direction (a majority favor skipping 5.3, wait for 5.5): * Mellanox - Vlad (most backports complete) - will work OFED 5.x if vendors are committed; if not they will focus on MOFED * Chelsio - Bharat (no resource commitments for OFED 5.3) - vote for skipping 5.3 and work 5.5 * Cavium- Michal (no resources, disable for 5.3) - no commit to 5.5 backports, will support OFED-5.x out-of-box kernel. * Broadcom - Devesh (resources tight, no ETA for backports) - No response ???? * VMware - Adit (not ready for 5.3, move to 5.5) - committed to OFED, skipping 5.3 and work 5.5 * Huawei - Lijun Ou (working with Vlad on 5.3 and backports) - working on 5.3, would rather not wait * Intel (i40iw) - Henry (5.3 kernel support only, no change from OFED 4.18) - no backport work, kernel.org version only. * Much discussion regarding OFED 5.3 versus 5.5 and the need for OFED going forward * The distro in-box versions for rdma_core (kernel/user) have reduced the upstream driver gap (only ~6 months behind) * Vlad mentioned that RH8.1 pulls in rdma_core drivers from 5.x (5.3?) kernel base, user rdma-core at v22.3 * OFED takes 6 months for release cycles, reducing the advantage over in-box distros that are only 6-12 months behind upstream. * OFED added value discussed - maybe backporting upstream to older distro versions? * Problems backporting to some of these older kernels, dependencies beyond rdma_core components make it very difficult * OFED may have run its course, served its purpose and EWG may not be needed? * Decision was made to skip OFED 5.3 and target kernel.org 5.5 in January 2020. * Any objections should to be presented to EWG community via the email list, ASAP * EWG will reconvene in January; confirm vendor commitments to OFED before starting kernel.org-5.5 work Please feel free to add/correct as needed. Regards, Arlin
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