[Pvfs2-developers] working in-tree on portals, release plans

[Sam Lang]

On Jul 18, 2007, at 2:06 PM, Pete Wyckoff wrote:

> I have the portals device working on TCP here, and would like to
> start testing on the ORNL Cray soon.  It would be more convenient
> for playing both locally and remotely if I had the source checked
> into a repo somewhere.  Would anybody object if I put this in
> mainline and continued to develop there?  It doesn't touch much of
> anything outside bmi_portals.  But you would see more little commit
> messages as I continue to fix things up.
>
> For a related question, I've been finding little leaks all over with
> valgrind.  To avoid lots of false positives, it is nice if all the
> "skip4" and similar padding statements in BMI are filled with
> zeroes.  I have patches to do this.  But in doing so I found a bug
> where we always waste 8 bytes on the wire for every encoding of a
> distribution.  Teensy in the larger scale of things, but nicer to
> get rid of it.  This requires a bump to PVFS2_PROTO_MAJOR.  Hence
> the question:  what's the release schedule look like?  Does anybody
> care if I play with the protocol like this now?

I don't think there are any release plans imminent for the stuff in  
HEAD.  There are some minor patches to 2.6.3 that should probably get  
released (the 2.6.22 kernel stuff especially), but those should be  
made to the 2.6 branch anyway.
-sam

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> 		-- Pete
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