[ewg] re: Shepherd

2008-01-30 Thread Cyril Shepherd
Hey there my name is Nichole I saw your profile online and thought you might like to chat Add me on msn messanger if your intrested [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ ewg mailing list ewg@lists.openfabrics.org

[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] Bonding and hw_csum

2008-01-30 Thread Koen Segers
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 15:34 +0200, Or Gerlitz wrote: Stijn De Smet wrote: I'm trying to get IPOIB bonding to work with the hw_csum enabled. ... When I disable hw_csums, I can start iperf's, pull and replug all cables and the iperf's run uninterrupted. This is interesting report,

[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] Bonding and hw_csum

2008-01-30 Thread Or Gerlitz
Koen Segers wrote: Do you mean that bonding with hw_csum enabled will never work? no, I meant to say that I am not enough into the details and mechanics of the hw_csum approach/patch and since I understand it is going to be removed, I will not look now on going into this report. Why is

[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] Bonding and hw_csum

2008-01-30 Thread Koen Segers
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 16:26 +0200, Or Gerlitz wrote: Why is hw_checksum not submitted to the mainline kernel (and thus also removed from ofed)? We definitely want to enable hw_checksum as it gives an enormous bandwidth boost with ipoib. you should ask that the individual/s that are

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

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:

[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

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

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 Tziporet ___ ewg mailing list ewg@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ewg

[ewg] OFED 1.3 RC3 release is available

2008-01-30 Thread Tziporet Koren
Hi, OFED 1.3 RC3 release is available on http://www.openfabrics.org/builds/ofed-1.3/release/OFED-1.3-rc3.tgz To get BUILD_ID run ofed_info Please report any issues in bugzilla https://bugs.openfabrics.org/ The RC4 release is expected on February 13 Tziporet Vlad

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

RE: [ewg] Re: [ofa-general] OFED Jan 28 meeting summary on RC3readiness

2008-01-30 Thread Sean Hefty
The main reason is not the bugs but the features supported by IBM - CM support for non SRQ and 4K MTU These are entirely my opinions, but... OFED isn't even at RC1 if it's not at feature freeze... OFED has moved well beyond trying to provide an enterprise distribution to simply providing an

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

Re: [ewg] Re: [ofa-general] Bonding and hw_csum

2008-01-30 Thread Or Gerlitz
On 1/30/08, Koen Segers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 16:26 +0200, Or Gerlitz wrote: you should ask that the individual/s that are signed on the patch Is this Michael S. Tsirkin? I don't know where else to find this information. In the Linux model, each change is a patch

RE: [ewg] Re: [ofa-general] OFED Jan 28 meeting summary on RC3readiness

2008-01-30 Thread Doug Ledford
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 14:03 -0800, Sean Hefty wrote: The main reason is not the bugs but the features supported by IBM - CM support for non SRQ and 4K MTU These are entirely my opinions, but... OFED isn't even at RC1 if it's not at feature freeze... OFED has moved well beyond trying to

RE: [ewg] Re: [ofa-general] OFED Jan 28 meeting summary on RC3readiness

2008-01-30 Thread Woodruff, Robert J
Tziporet wrote, * 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 I hate to keep slipping this, but I think it is important to get what RedHat needs into

[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] Bonding and hw_csum

2008-01-30 Thread Shirley Ma
Hello Tziporet, the hw checksum patch was removed from OFED 1.3 Tziporet Could youp please specify which patch has been removed? I still can see a list of patches under RC3. here they are: ipoib_0010_Add-high-dma-support-to-ipoib.patch ipoib_0020_Add-s-g-support-for-IPOIB.patch

[ewg] Re: [PATCH 2/2] IB/ehca: Add PMA support

2008-01-30 Thread Roland Dreier
thanks, applied 1-2 ___ ewg mailing list ewg@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ewg

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

[ewg] [PATCH] add missing change-log for the connected mode Grat ARP patch

2008-01-30 Thread Or Gerlitz
--- kernel_patches/fixes/ipoib_0120_check_grat_arp_with_cm.patch.orig 2008-01-31 13:33:13.0 +0200 +++ kernel_patches/fixes/ipoib_0120_check_grat_arp_with_cm.patch 2008-01-31 13:33:35.0 +0200 @@ -1,3 +1,18 @@ +commit e1df2907fe4ef6809ad8c849882f6dc7cb6ed7a3 +Author: Moni