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1、http:/openfabrics.org/ OFED 1.x Roadmap & Release Process November 06 Jeff Squyres, Woodruff, Robert J, Betsy Zeller, Tziporet Koren, 2 http:/openfabrics.org/ Mellanox Technologies Developers Summit SC06 OFED 1.x Support Issue reporting on bugzilla: http:/openfabrics.org/bugzilla/ Support on Wiki pa

2、ge: https:/openib.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=OFED+Support Need a page on openfabrics.org web site New patches can be placed under https:/openib.org/svn/gen2/branches/1.1/ofed/support/ Minor version can be provided by any company E.g. OFED 1.1.1 by IBM Open: Do we want common 1.1.x release for majo

3、r bug fixes and maintenance e.g. libibverbs 1.0.4, IPoIB HA oops, etc. If yes who is going to QA such a release 3 http:/openfabrics.org/ Mellanox Technologies Developers Summit SC06 OFED 1.x Release Template Options: Time driven Features driven Suggestion: Combination Have a list of features and see

4、 what can fit to Q1 time frame Get to consensus on priorities today All maintainers send estimation by Dec-1 Close features list in Dec-4 4 http:/openfabrics.org/ Mellanox Technologies Developers Summit SC06 High Level Goals Be incorporated into enterprise distro RedHat EL5, SLES10 Minimize integrat

5、ion effort into distribution Fit with distribution schedule Daily regression tests (at least for compile) Defined and agreed on release criteria QoS Scalability (# nodes, # connections) High availability (define for each component) Easier end-user customization (e.g., patching) 5 http:/openfabrics.o

6、rg/ Mellanox Technologies Developers Summit SC06 OFED 1.2 Features - Core Core: SA cache Multicast CMA: QoS APM support Multicast 6 http:/openfabrics.org/ Mellanox Technologies Developers Summit SC06 OFED 1.2 Features - Libraries Use a stable release that each maintainer provides Need a stable relea

7、se for libibcm, librdmacm and libumad libibverbs 1.1: (Roland) Fork support (requires apps change) Memory windows Reregister memory region (incl. extend without unregister.) Minor ABI extensions for new low-level drivers Better low-level driver handling, including multiple drivers linked in statical

8、ly. Open: Do we want libibverbs 1.0 included too? libibcm 1.0 (Sean) librdmacm 1.0 (Sean) libumad 1.0 (Hal) 7 http:/openfabrics.org/ Mellanox Technologies Developers Summit SC06 OFED 1.2 Features - ULPs IPoIB: NAPI, Connected Mode SDP: Netstat, scalability, small messages BW iSER: No new features SR

9、P: MPP integration for HA RDS: First integration (assuming dual license) uDAPL: No major features 8 http:/openfabrics.org/ Mellanox Technologies Developers Summit SC06 OFED 1.2 Features - Management OpenSM: FAT tree routing QoS Diagnostics: Monitoring QoS Partitions analysis GUI tool 9 http:/openfab

10、rics.org/ Mellanox Technologies Developers Summit SC06 OFED 1.2 Features - MPI Common MPI setup sourcing mpivars.sh / mpivars.csh MVAPICH: Version 0.9.9 Open MPI: depends on the OFA code freeze date Possible: v1.2 Other possible: v1.1.3 and v1.2b as tech preview 10 http:/openfabrics.org/ Mellanox Te

11、chnologies Developers Summit SC06 OFED 1.2 OS Matrix OS Matrix closure: 4 weeks before the release kernel.org: latest kernel available + previous released one Novell: SLES 9 SP3 SLES 10 (SP1) Redhat: RHEL 4 (up?) RHEL 5? What about free distros (e.g. Fedora, SuSE Pro, ) Decision was not to QA any fr

12、ee distro 11 http:/openfabrics.org/ Mellanox Technologies Developers Summit SC06 OFED 1.2 Sources Kernel: Start based on Rolands tree for 2.6.19 May need to move to 2.6.20 when first RC is out Backport port to supported kernels (added by OFED) Add out of kernel modules: SDP, RDS?, uCMA git tree unde

13、r the new server To be set next week User: Ongoing based on user trunk Start with svn and move to git when available Based on official releases provided by maintainers Daily build of both kernel and user on the server Enable easy developer testing Regression testing run daily does companies committe

14、d to this? 12 http:/openfabrics.org/ Mellanox Technologies Developers Summit SC06 OFED 1.x Timeline Agree on release features: immediately after a release is done Alpha / feature freeze: 11 weeks ahead the release Beta: 3 weeks after Alpha 1st RC: 4 weeks after Beta 2nd RC: 2 weeks after RC1 Release: 2 weeks after RC2 13 http:/openfabrics.org/ Mellanox Technologies Developers Summit SC06 OFED 1.2 Timeline Example Release: Apr 18 (beginning Q207) 2nd RC: Apr 2 1st RC: Mar 21 Beta: Feb 28 Alpha / feature freeze: Jan 31 Feature list agreed Dec 4