On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Jason Gunthorpe<[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 08:28:25PM -0400, Hal Rosenstock wrote: > >> > But you overload the switch the SM is connected to with processing >> > N*limit DR SMPs rather than just 'limit' SMPs. That is what concerns >> > me. >> >> As I said, the current algorithm is worse as it sends N*no limit DR >> SMPs (where no limit means any needed blocks). Not sure that VL15 >> droppage due to this has been identified. So I think this improves on >> what's been deployed and seemingly works in OpenSM for quite some time >> now. > > Hmm, OK I didn't realize that. > > I've heard of reports of VL15 droppage in real networks, maybe this is why..
Could be; another possible source is any tools/apps which use VL15 like concurrent diag use (ibnetdiscover, ibdiagnet, many other infiniband-diags, ....). Point is that these subnets seem to recover/still work so the retry must be working. -- Hal _______________________________________________ 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
