Re: Multicast group pre-creation for TopSpin old stack

2010-09-07 Thread Sasha Khapyorsky
On 17:13 Mon 06 Sep , Roland Dreier wrote: It's been carried forward just in case anyone was still running the old TS stack. It's always hard to determine the negative (when no one is using it any longer) (with the latest OpenSM) but it may be high time to deprecate this. Is anyone

Re: Multicast group pre-creation for TopSpin old stack

2010-09-07 Thread Roland Dreier
As far as I could understand this TS multicast group only impacts IPoIB communication between two TS stack clients. If so then it is likely that just using old Topspin switch will not activate this flow anyway. Right? I think it would affect IPoIB-ethernet gateway at least. And also

Re: Multicast group pre-creation for TopSpin old stack

2010-09-06 Thread Sasha Khapyorsky
Hi Yevgeny, On 12:07 Sun 05 Sep , Yevgeny Kliteynik wrote: There's a hack in the SM to deal with TopSpin's non-compliant join compmask for IPoIB v4 multicast group ff12:401b:pkey::1 The group is pre-defined and maintained as a well-known multicast group. opensm/osm_prtn.c: 232

Re: Multicast group pre-creation for TopSpin old stack

2010-09-06 Thread Hal Rosenstock
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Sasha Khapyorsky sas...@voltaire.com wrote: Hi Yevgeny, On 12:07 Sun 05 Sep     , Yevgeny Kliteynik wrote: There's a hack in the SM to deal with TopSpin's non-compliant join compmask for IPoIB v4 multicast group ff12:401b:pkey::1 The group is pre-defined and

Multicast group pre-creation for TopSpin old stack

2010-09-05 Thread Yevgeny Kliteynik
Sasha, There's a hack in the SM to deal with TopSpin's non-compliant join compmask for IPoIB v4 multicast group ff12:401b:pkey::1 The group is pre-defined and maintained as a well-known multicast group. opensm/osm_prtn.c: 232 /* workaround for TS */ 233 /* FIXME: remove