Hi Ken,

On 13:30 Tue 28 Jun     , Ken Schmidt wrote:
> This is an updated patch for the DnUp routing algorithm.  Any comments
> are appreciated.
> 
> This routing algorithm operates in a very similar fashion to UpDn, but
> is modified to allow optimal routing on certain network structures in
> which uplinks and CA nodes are connected to the same switch nodes. (For
> example Chinook at EMSL.) In these networks the optimal paths between
> nodes connected to a single chassis would remain within the chassis.
> However due to the uplinks being connected at the same level of the
> network as the CA nodes UpDn will not allow these paths to be used for
> communication between the CA nodes.
> 
> DnUp follows the same procedure as UpDn with a few differences.  Ranking
> is based solely on the relative distance from CA nodes, any switch node
> with a CA node directly attached is assigned a rank of 0 any switch
> node without a CA node attached is assigned a rank of one greater than
> the minimum rank of their neighbors. Transitions are also reversed;
> The initial direction is down and only one transition to up
> is allowed.  There is also an option which relaxes this restriction to
> allow communication with switches nodes similar to the functionality of
> connect_roots in UpDn.
> 
> ---

Applied, thanks.
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