>The group though it will be useful to help the RDMA community and applications >developers, as part of the consortium activities, as nothing exist out there for >this. That is not true. The OFA has had the OFVWG for a number of years now. It was originally proposed by Mellanox for this precise reason, and its current chair is Mellanox. Inexplicably, it has been moribund for quite a while. >And as such UCF >thought it will be useful to have some talks at the annual UCX consortium. Traditionally, these talks have been held at the annual (and very well-established) OpenFabrics Alliance Workshop, one of the key purposes of which since the beginning was to support developers working on RDMA. Given that Verbs originated as a work product of the OFA before moving into GitHub repos, the workshop continues to be the right place to hold these conversations. I agree with Doug. Fracturing the industry and creating new forums is not beneficial to anyone. -Paul >-----Original Message----- >From: linux-rdma-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-rdma- >owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gilad Shainer >Sent: Monday, November 26, 2018 11:15 AM >To: Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx>; Christoph Hellwig ><hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Yossi Itigin <yosefe@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >Cc: linux-rdma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: RE: 2018 UCX and RDMA Annual Developers Meeting > >On 11/26/2018 6:56 AM, Doug Ledford wrote: >> On 11/22/2018 11:25 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> > It might help to explain what UCF is any why it pretends to be >> > relevant for Linux. Especially with such a short notice.. >> >> Indeed. And why all of this has been done behind closed doors with >> only just this last minute announcement. Or what this OpenRDMA group >> is and why someone thinks it needs/deserves to exist? > >UCX is an open source project that exist for several years now, and multiple >companies and organizations participate in the development of it. In order to >help drive UCX an official consortium was set for it. Something common in the >industry. > >The group though it will be useful to help the RDMA community and applications >developers, as part of the consortium activities, as nothing exist out there for >this. For example improving the man pages, provide support for application >developers etc. This can only help the RDMA community. And as such UCF >thought it will be useful to have some talks at the annual UCX consortium. We are >sorry that we missed sending this info the this mailing list, but it is better later >than never. > >There is no fragmentations here. UCX is not new and demonstrates nice >adoption and usage. The RDMA work is only going to help the RDMA community. >We are not aware of any other group that does it today. > > >> I'll be frank, this looks like a pretty concerted effort to >> intentionally fragment things in this community even further than they >> already are. Intentional running off to play in a walled garden instead of >working upstream. >> >> -- >> Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx> >> GPG KeyID: B826A3330E572FDD >> Key fingerprint = AE6B 1BDA 122B 23B4 265B 1274 B826 A333 0E57 >> 2FDD > > >Regards, >Gilad Shainer >Mellanox Technologies > >
