iWARP branch need time for connection management issues and a few others. There is impact on interoperability. Thanks,
Arkady Kanevsky email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Appliance Inc. phone: 781-768-5395 1601 Trapelo Rd. - Suite 16. Fax: 781-895-1195 Waltham, MA 02451 central phone: 781-768-5300 > -----Original Message----- > From: Roland Dreier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 4:38 PM > To: Or Gerlitz > Cc: EWG; OpenFabrics General; Dror Goldenberg > Subject: [ofa-general] Re: to be discussed at the developer conference > > At the highest level I think this "developer summit" is > suffering from a lack of a clear goal. (The same could be > said about the OpenFabrics alliance as a whole, but let's not > get into that...) I'm supposed to give a talk about the > basics of kernel development and I'm happy to do so, but that > implies a certain target audience that is pretty disjoint > from the developers who are leading development. > > In general the most valuable use of face-to-face time with > code developers is to settle issues where email discussion > has gotten stuck. If most people are not already familiar > with the issue then it is very difficult to be productive. > > So with that said: > > > 1) the long time and endless threads related to the SA > caching thing > need to be there. Sean - I saw that you > prepare a session, correct? > > will you presenting few possible designs? > > This is the perfect type of thing to try and settle. > > > 2) as for IPoIB stateless offload - with Eli and Liran not > planned to > be there. Dror - do you intend to actually > present the actual ipoib / > core / drivers related design > and implementation? > > Given that there really hasn't even been an attempt to > discuss this on the mailing list, I'm not convinced it's > worth trying to rush through explaining it. I didn't think > the patches were particularly hard to understand. > > > 4) IPoIB connected mode UC support - Roland, can work on > this start > once the no-SRQ design/code is agreed and > committed to a branch at > your git? > > Is there a spec for attaching UC QPs to SRQs? Other than > that I think it's just a matter of someone caring enough to > start working on it. > > > 5) IB 4K MTU - in IPoIB and elsewhere in the IB stack, > same here, > Roland, do you think a short session is needed > > No -- I don't know of any issues that need face-to-face discussion. > > > 6) the netdev network batching RFCs - Krishna, Shirley, > will someone > from IBM can prepare a session to educate us > on the matter and the > status? > > Why do we need to spend face-to-face time on this? > > - R. > _______________________________________________ > general mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general > > To unsubscribe, please visit > http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general > _______________________________________________ general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
