-Agreed, special groups (except SNM) will not be compressed into same MLID. Slava
-----Original Message----- From: Or Gerlitz Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 1:04 PM To: Slava Strebkov Cc: Eli Dorfman; [email protected] Subject: Re: [ofa-general] [PATCH 1/4] multicast multiplexing - definitions for new data types, and infrastructure functions Slava Strebkov wrote: > This thread covers implementation of compression multiple MGIDs to one MLID. The following groups of IP addresses will have same MLID (for all pkey): > 1. FF12401bxxxx000000000000FFFFFFFF - All Nodes > 2. FF12401bxxxx00000000000000000001 - All hosts > 3. FF12401bffff0000000000000000004d - all Gateways > 4. FF12401bxxxx00000000000000000002 - all routers > 5. FF12601bxxxx000000000001ffxxxxxx - IPv6 SNM > I think we better avoid compressing the pkey as well. Think what happens when a packet is sent to the all hosts and with your patch is routed to N partitions each one having M hosts, (N-1) * M hosts will generate invalid pkey trap! IB partitioning is a means to separate nodes, and here you attempt to enforce a violation... Or. _______________________________________________ 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
