Hey Sasha, On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 06:10 -0700, Sasha Khapyorsky wrote: > On 16:08 Tue 13 Apr , Sasha Khapyorsky wrote: > > > > Would it be better to keep cache in a regular human readable > > ibnetdiscover output format, so '--diff' will be usable not just against > > cache, but also against a regular ibnetdiscover output files?
I had considered this at one point. There were several reasons I decided to go w/ the cache idea. Perhaps the major reason is that the current cache system has "all" the data (nodeinfo, portinfo, etc.) saved, whereas the normal ibnetdiscover output does not. So we would be limited in our diff output for what ibnetdiscover outputs (or perhaps limited in future extensions). Adding a --diff into iblinkinfo is also on my list to do, but that wouldn't be possible w/ a cached text output (the cached text file doesn't store portinfo data). This isn't to say there are downsides. The major downside is that it's difficult to edit the cache when minor changes happen on the network (e.g. for our system administrators, when an HCA is replaced b/c a node dies). I have a tool for that (to be submitted soon too I hope :-). Al -- Albert Chu ch...@llnl.gov Computer Scientist High Performance Systems Division Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
