Re: [ewg] RE: [ofa-general] OFED 1.3 Alpha release is available
Woodruff, Robert J wrote: Not sure I buy that argument. I think in the past we have had some features in OFED that were only availible on certain kernels/distros. If I recall, for example, I think that for a while iser was not available for all kernels until the backport patches were developed. Not a problem that a ULP will not support all kernels (its even the status now of some drivers/ulps) But every ULP must have a maintainer with git tree on ofa server, supporting few of the relevant kernels. Also the maintainer must run some unit level testing to make sure its working. Are you proposing we remove something that is in an upstream kernel from OFED ? We never remove anything that is coming from Linux kernel as I thought that generally all features that are upstream get included into OFED and then perhaps some features that are not yet upstream are added on. That seems to be the process that we have followed in the past anyway. I agree - this is the way things are working Tziporet ___ ewg mailing list ewg@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ewg
Re: [ewg] RE: [ofa-general] OFED 1.3 Alpha release is available
Talpey, Thomas wrote: At 08:46 PM 10/16/2007, Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen) wrote: What ever happened to NFS RDMA? The NFS/RDMA client is queued for 2.6.24-rc1, it has been in the NFS client maintainer's tree for some time and was pulled by Linus last week. I haven't announced it yet because it appears the 2.6.24 merge window is a bit of a mess! But I expect it to contain the client. If you want to see it in its current state, go to git://linux-nfs.org/nfs-2.6 I thought OFED1.3 was intended to be 2.6.24-based. In that case why would it exclude other 2.6.24 content simply because it wasn't there for an early Alpha? Being in upstream kernel is very good but for NFS RDMA to be in OFED we need backport patches that supports all OSes (e.g. SLES 10 based on kernel 2.6.16, RHEL 5 based on kernel 2.6.18) and someone has to do this work Tziporet ___ ewg mailing list ewg@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ewg
RE: [ewg] RE: [ofa-general] OFED 1.3 Alpha release is available
4. SDP - these are not yet in the alpha release o Keep-alive o Asynch IO o Send Zero Copy If it didn't make it into alpha, perhaps it should not go into 1.3, so we can hold the release date better? Since the code is running and tested and Jim just has not succeed to arrange it all in the git on time I think it should be in I cc Jim so he can answer in more details on the status. I don't object to it going in, but new features often take some time to stabilize (has the new SDP been tested on ppc64, for example?), so any new major features going in beyond this point have a high probability of delaying the release. Scott ___ ewg mailing list ewg@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ewg
[ewg] RE: [ofa-general] OFED 1.3 Alpha release is available
3. IPoIB o Stateless offloads o NAPI is enabled default How does one measure these changes using tools like netperf or iperf? Do I need a specific HCA type? 4. SDP - these are not yet in the alpha release o Keep-alive o Asynch IO o Send Zero Copy If it didn't make it into alpha, perhaps it should not go into 1.3, so we can hold the release date better? What ever happened to NFS RDMA? Scott ___ ewg mailing list ewg@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ewg
[ewg] RE: [ofa-general] OFED 1.3 Alpha release is available
On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 17:46 -0700, Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen) wrote: 3. IPoIB o Stateless offloads o NAPI is enabled default How does one measure these changes using tools like netperf or iperf? Do I need a specific HCA type? 4. SDP - these are not yet in the alpha release o Keep-alive o Asynch IO o Send Zero Copy If it didn't make it into alpha, perhaps it should not go into 1.3, so we can hold the release date better? What ever happened to NFS RDMA? The SVC transport switch and SVC-UDP/TCP/RDMA transport drivers are targeted for 2.6.25. To track this activity, see [EMAIL PROTECTED] Scott ___ 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 ___ ewg mailing list ewg@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ewg
[ewg] RE: [ofa-general] OFED 1.3 Alpha release is available
I have added version 1.3alpha2 to bugzilla. Scott Weitzenkamp SQA and Release Manager Server Virtualization Business Unit Cisco Systems -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tziporet Koren Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 7:31 AM To: ewg@lists.openfabrics.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ofa-general] OFED 1.3 Alpha release is available Hi, OFED 1.3 Alpha release is available on http://www.openfabrics.org/builds/ofed-1.3/release/ File: OFED-1.3-alpha2.tgz To get BUILD_ID run ofed_info Please report any issues in bugzilla https://bugs.openfabrics.org/ The beta release is expected on 29 October Tziporet Vlad == == Release information: OS support: Novell: - SLES10 - SLES10 SP1 Redhat: - Redhat EL4 up4 and up5 - Redhat EL5 kernel.org: - 2.6.23 Note: Fedora C6 and Open SUSE 10.2 and Redhat EL4 up3 are not part of the official list. We keep the backport patches for these OSes and make sure OFED compile and loaded properly but will not do full QA cycle. Systems: * x86_64 * x86 * ia64 * ppc64* *Note: On PPC64 installation fails on the packages: ibutils, mvapich2, MPI tests over Open MPI. Main Changes from OFED 1.2.5 1. General changes o Kernel code based on 2.6.23 o Quality of Service support in OpenSM, CMA, IPoIB, SRP o Added Neteffect driver (nes) 2. Package and install o There is a new install script. See OFED_Installation_Guide.txt for more details on the new installation and build procedures. Note: There is an easy way to install in one command line without a conf file, and without the interactive mode. Example: ./install.pl --all --prefix /usr/local o User space packages are now in different source RPMs (as opposed to one source RPM in previous OFED releases). o The option for a build without installing is not supported any more. o Added an option to generate tarball with kernel sources for each kernel. 3. IPoIB o Stateless offloads o IGMP for user-space multicast IB o NAPI is enabled default o High availability is supported via the bonding module only (removed ipoib tool scripts) 4. SDP - these are not yet in the alpha release o Keep-alive o Asynch IO o Send Zero Copy 5. iSER o ??? 6. qlgc_vnic o Update for PathScale HCA 7. RDS o RDMA API (using FMRs) - under work 8. uDAPL - these are not yet in the alpha release o Add DAT 2.0 API run-time library and development support. uDAPL 2.0 will include IB extensions for IB rdma write with immediate data and IB atomic operations. o Both uDAPL 1.2 and 2.0 packages will be provided and will co-exist 9. Libraries a. libibverbs 1.1.1 o Added Extended RC transport type b. librdmacm (uCMA) 1.0.3 10. OSM o More routing performance improvements o Even more speedups o Better packaging/installation o Native daemon mode o Performance management o Quality of Service manager: Based on IBTA annex 11. Management o Multiple partitions 12. MPI: a. OSU MVAPICH o Version is 0.9.9 - same as in 1.2.5 - to be replaced later b. Open MPI o Version is 1.2.2-1 - same as in 1.2.5 - to be replaced later c. OSU MVAPICH2 o Version was updated to 1.0-1. Tasks that should be completed for the beta release: 1. Integrate all SDP features 2. Complete RDS work 3. Apply patches that fix warning of backport patches 4. Fix compilation problems on PPC 5. Add qperf test from Qlogic 6. Rebase kernel code on 2.6.24 rc1 (depending it's availability) 7. Support RHEL 5 up1 8. SPEC files should be part of each user space package ___ 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 ___ ewg mailing list ewg@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ewg
