On 07:56 Tue 24 Jul     , Eitan Zahavi wrote:
> > On 20:59 Mon 23 Jul     , Eitan Zahavi wrote:
> > > Hi Sasha, Hal,
> > >  
> > > I think I have an idea:
> > >  
> > > Since this is a specific switch that reported ChangeBit or Trap why 
> > > can't we just qualify that there was no change in the switch setup?
> > 
> > The ChangeBit seems to be good start point - then OpenSM will 
> > query all switch ports PortInfo anyway and if for all ports 
> > PortState is <= INIT (and at least for one port it is = 
> > INIT), it means that this switch was rebooted/reinitialized.
> > 
> > And for single port PortState drop to = INIT should indicate 
> > reinitialization.
> > 
> > Seems correct?
> Yes.
> > 
> > > We could send PortInfo, SwitchInfo,
> > 
> > SwitchInfo is queried at each light sweep, PortInfo's if 
> > ChangeBit is set. Guess we are ok with it even now.
> I will double check that...
> Well - even setting one port state to INIT did not cause the switch to
> be reconfigured.
> Seems the code does not enforce this condition yet.
> > 
> > > LFT, MFT, SL2VL, VLArb, PKey queries
> > > and make sure no change from previous state. Or we could simply 
> > > enforce last state by sending it over again ...
> > 
> > I think we could want to re-read PKey tables in order to 
> > preserve existing PKey indices and just to flush (overwrite 
> > with new settings) LFT, MFT, SL2VL, VLArb tables. Reasonable?
> Correct.

Ok, I will prepare patches. I think about separate patches for switches
and ports. Also likely MFT should be handled separately, since we don't
do incremental update there yet.

Sasha
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