On 10:17 Tue 13 Apr , Al Chu wrote: > > I had considered this at one point. There were several reasons I > decided to go w/ the cache idea. Perhaps the major reason is that the > current cache system has "all" the data (nodeinfo, portinfo, etc.) > saved, whereas the normal ibnetdiscover output does not. So we would be > limited in our diff output for what ibnetdiscover outputs (or perhaps > limited in future extensions). Adding a --diff into iblinkinfo is also > on my list to do, but that wouldn't be possible w/ a cached text output > (the cached text file doesn't store portinfo data).
That makes sense. > This isn't to say there are downsides. The major downside is that it's > difficult to edit the cache when minor changes happen on the network > (e.g. for our system administrators, when an HCA is replaced b/c a node > dies). I have a tool for that (to be submitted soon too I hope :-). It is difficult to edit and difficult to read. So I would really prefer to have a text file (even with extended format). But well, let's see how this will go. Sasha -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
