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

[Rob Ross]

Fine by me Pete (not that I write much code...). Awesome that the 
portals device is coming along. -- Rob

Sam Lang wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
>>
>>         -- Pete
>>
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