Hi Sasha, Question at the bottom.
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:08:15 +0300 Sasha Khapyorsky <sas...@voltaire.com> wrote: > Hi Nicolas, > > On 07:44 Fri 19 Jun , Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin wrote: > > > > > > Eventually it is only link list with names and callbacks. It should be > > > easy to add new entry there. > > > > > I guess it could be done but are you sure the event plugin is loaded and > > set up before the routing engine ? > > Yes. > > > If it is, we could make the routing_engine list a bit more dynamic. > > However I'm not fully satisfied of the idea of inserting new engines > > through an "event" plugin. > > This called "event" for historical reasons - now it is completely generic > plugin interface. > > > We could also make this interface a bit more generic and provides the > > means to add new features around OpenSM more easily. > > For example? Reload plugin on the fly? That is fine for me. > > > > > >> AFAIK, the latest Voltaire UFM also includes or will include > > >> proprietary routing algorithms (mesh + fat tree), so it could also be > > >> useful for Voltaire. > > > > > > I don't know about this, but even if it is so. It is not our charter as > > > open source project to care about such practices and they (UFM) will > > > need to support their stuff by themselves. > > > > > > > Fair enough but the cost of this plugin is quite low in terms of code > > quantity, so it shouldn't introduce too much trouble maintaning it. And > > as Ira, it reduces OpenSM dependencies for external algorithm. Some of > > ours for example rely on PostgreSQL drivers or libdbi, some own library > > (which uses libibnetdisc) and much more. > > I understand such arguments, but up to now I didn't see any good reason to > have more than one plugin interface in OpenSM. > Does this mean you are open to the idea now? Or are you still not convinced? Ira _______________________________________________ general mailing list general@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
