On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 01:31 +0000, Sasha Khapyorsky wrote: > On 17:08 Mon 14 Jan , Hal Rosenstock wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 00:42 +0000, Sasha Khapyorsky wrote: > > > On 16:09 Mon 14 Jan , Hal Rosenstock wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 00:11 +0000, Sasha Khapyorsky wrote: > > > > > On 11:45 Mon 14 Jan , Ira Weiny wrote: > > > > > > The following 3 patches are a much cleaner implementation of what I > > > > > > sent to the > > > > > > list on Friday. > > > > > > > > > > > > The first 2 patches are just code clean up and I feel should be > > > > > > applied. The > > > > > > 3rd adds the option --consolodate_ipv6_snm_req which causes all > > > > > > IPv6 Solicited > > > > > > Node Multicast requests to be grouped into one MCast group per > > > > > > partition. > > > > > > > > > > All three patches are applied. Thanks. > > > > > > > > This seems a little fast for me. > > > > > > It looks like a nice start for me. > > > > > > > I didn't think we were even done with > > > > the discussion yet. > > > > > > Sure, and we can continue from this point. > > > > > > (Ira stated that this patch series are not a final solution, but already > > > provides sophisticated functionality right now. The feature itself is > > > optional and I don't see a big risk here.) > > > > It may work in Ira's configuration but I'm not even sure it follows the > > IBA spec. > > Why it is not?
I'll dig this out shortly; it's been discussed on the list before. > > It may also cause issues if misused (e.g. MTU, rate, > > partitions, etc.). > > Right, but it is optional. Default OpenSM behavior is not changed. Doesn't stop someone else from misusing it; e.g. IPv6 is broken, or in the presence of partitioning, certain things don't work right, etc. I may be wrong but I think depending on how quickly the shortcomings are addresses or not, this becomes a support issue. -- Hal > Sasha > _______________________________________________ > general mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general > > To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general _______________________________________________ general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
