On Wed, 6 Oct 2010, Alekseys Senin wrote: > > How do you handle the situation of the SM responding before the fabric has > > been reconfigured? I do not see any delay on join. So they will be dropped > > if the fabric was not reconfigured fast enough? Or does the SM somehow > > delay the response? > > I think this issue, that should solve the problem of sending or delaying > packets after obtaining MLID should be solved in another patch. Proposed > code improve today situation, when you can't change it at all.
I agree with that. > 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? _______________________________________________ ewg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ewg
