On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 11:16:59AM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > Relating to broadcast, I don't think that this is a good solution it > > will bring unwarranted load, specially in the case if no MLID received. > > The way of adding delay before we start to send packages, seems to me > > better. > > Broadcast is a temporary solution and it only occurs with in an IB > partition. It would be a problem if one host suddenly starts sending > at full line speed. Maybe have that configurable?
Right, and keep in mind that sending a packet with the broadcast MLID and group-specific MGID will still result in the HCA's filtering based on MGID. Personally, I'm not concerned about flooding - this is how things work in ethernet - any sane app will need some way to cope with that. Jason _______________________________________________ ewg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ewg
