On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 05:59 +0300, Sasha Khapyorsky wrote: > Basically this addresses the problem described by Al Chu in: > > http://lists.openfabrics.org/pipermail/general/2008-April/049132.html > > When base lid paths become completely disbalanced on a fabrics with > lmc > 0. > > One feedback was from Yiftah Shahar: > > "I think that our requirements should be that even when you are working > with LMC>0 then the base LID routing should not be affected.
> One way to achieve this goal is to first run the base-LID routing (so > all base LID improvement will be also in LMC>0) and then start with the > other LIDs as round-robbing starting from the base-lid-port + 1 > according current routing algorithm rules (keeping min-hop, up/down...)." > > We had some discussion with Al and Yiftah about this and considered that > in addition to "pure" base lid paths preservation (which is good thing by > itself) proposed method solves original lid disbalancing problem as well. Would you elaborate on the motivation behind the requirement to maintain/preserve the base LID routing ? -- Hal _______________________________________________ general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
