Hi Anton,

we at NSN don't need peer domains at this point.
We also don't need another default domain id.
What we would like to use is the usage of 
SAHPI_UNSPECIFIED_DOMAIN_ID to discover domains.
So I am fine with both ways.

How does voting in OpenHPI work?

Cheers,
Uli

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext Anton Pak [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 2:12 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Openhpi-devel] Domain Support for Clients
> 
> Uli,
> 
> Well, not sure we can break it.
> However it is pretty looking architecture solution.
> Let's make a voting! :)
> 
> As for default domain id, I suggest to make a number that 
> helps to avoid  
> collision.
> I hope implementors using reasonable numbers in their HPI 
> implementation.
> 
> As for peer domains, not sure there are men liking to have it 
> implemented.
> What is the NSN position for peer domains?
> 
> 
>     Anton Pak
> 
> On Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:04:39 +0400, Kleber, Ulrich (NSN - DE/Munich)  
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Anton,
> > see answers inline.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Uli
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: ext [email protected]
> >> [mailto:[email protected]]
> >> Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 11:56 AM
> >> To: [email protected]
> >> Subject: Re: [Openhpi-devel] Domain Support for Clients
> >>
> >> Uli,
> >>
> >> Your cases 1,2,3 looks good.
> >>
> >> The alternative way is to provide default domain in any case.
> >> Just empty domain and DRT referring to domains from
> >> openhpiclient.conf.
> >> It will be simplier to implement and architecture will be 
> more clear.
> >
> > So you mean the openSession(SAHPI_UNSPECIFIED_DOMAIN_ID) in 
> all cases
> > has no resources, but only DRT.
> > I agree, and even would prefer it.
> > But I expect the typical user today when having only 1 domain with
> > empty openhpiclient.conf (so daemon on localhost:4743), 
> will use that
> > coding. So my proposal was already a compromise for client
> > compatibility.
> > If you think we can break that, I would prefer your alternative.
> >
> >>
> >> However, I have no strong preference to any of these two ways.
> >>
> >> May be we shall use well-known (non zero) DomainId for the
> >> User Library Default Domain. Say 42 for example? :)
> >> For the domain we may have:
> >> - SaHpiDomainInfo.DatUserAlarmLimit = 0; (Argh! 0 means no
> >> limit according
> >> to Sahpi.h)
> >> - SaHpiEventLogInfoT.Size = 0
> >> - Empty SaHpiEventLogCapabilitiesT
> >> - some tricks with saHpiEventGet/saHpiEventAdd, added event shall
> >> appear at any session event queue.
> >>
> >
> > I think the zero DomainId is fine for that - even if we created some
> > default characteristics that are not optimal.
> > But if we create another value, I don't think it should be 
> the answer
> > on all of our questions :), may be 0x80000000?
> > But do we really need that?
> >
> >
> >> > Then why is it defined in the openhpiclient.conf? Shouldn't all
> >> > infos that the daemon needs be to know be defined in 
> openhpi.conf?
> >>
> >> I think only the Daemon Domain Id is ok for openhpi.conf.
> >> Currently any daemon just provides domain 0.
> >
> > Right. Today the daemon doesn't need to know.
> > But if we introduce peer domains in OpenHPI 2.42, it might 
> need to know.
> > I am fine with not changing that for now.
> >
> >
> >>
> >> > Why would we need to have multiple domains with the same 
> host:port?
> >> > I think OpenHPI's idea to have a daemon implementing
> >> exactly one domain
> >> > is a nice principle.
> >>
> >> Well, 2.8 and 2.10 had multiple domain support on daemon level.
> >> openhpiclient.conf is 2.12 innovation.
> >
> > OK.
> > I don't know about history.
> >
> >>
> >> I know two more HPI implementation that may be used with
> >> OpenHPI client
> >> library. PPS has one of them.
> >> The domain architecture for another HPI implementation may be
> >> different.
> >> I don't think we shall shut the door for other HPI implementations.
> >> Such scalability is one of OpenHPI strenghtes.
> >
> > I fully agree.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Uli
> >
> >>
> >>    Anton Pak
> >>
> >> > Hi Anton,
> >> >
> >> > see some comments inline.
> >> > Sorry for the confusion with the thought experiment.
> >> >
> >> > I read again what the spec says about the default domain 
> and I also
> >> > remember a speech by DavidM, that the default domain is 
> not a real
> >> > domain.
> >> > The default domain is accessed via SAHPI_UNSPECIFIED_DOMAIN_ID,
> >> > which is 0xFFFFFFFF.
> >> >
> >> > The spec says on p.28:
> >> > To support the general discovery process described in 
> Section 3.5,
> >> > HPI implementations should ensure that all the domains 
> that a user
> >> > needs to access are related and are discoverable from the default
> >> >  domain returned when the user opens a session specifying
> >> > SAHPI_UNSPECIFIED_DOMAIN_ID.
> >> > When a domain is accessed with SAHPI_UNSPECIFIED_DOMAIN_ID, the
> >> > actual domain identifier associated with the domain may 
> be obtained
> >> > from the DomainInfo structure returned by the 
> saHpiDomainInfoGet()
> >> > function.
> >> >
> >> > So I think that's what we should provide:
> >> >
> >> > Case 1, when openhpiclient.conf defines no domain:
> >> >
> >> > - When the user opens a session with
> >> > domain-id=SAHPI_UNSPECIFIED_DOMAIN_ID,
> >> >   we open the session with the default daemon (localhost:4743).
> >> > - When the user calls saHpiDomainInfoGet() we provide 
> domain-id 0.
> >> > - When the user opens a session with domain-id=0, the 
> same happens.
> >> > - When the user tries to access another domain, we return
> >> >   SA_ERR_HPI_INVALID_DOMAIN
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Case 2, when openhpiclient.conf defines one single 
> domain (let's use
> >> > id=1):
> >> >
> >> > - When the user opens a session with
> >> > domain-id=SAHPI_UNSPECIFIED_DOMAIN_ID,
> >> >   we call the daemon as defined for domain-id 1
> >> > - When the user calls saHpiDomainInfoGet() we provide 
> domain-id 1.
> >> > - When the user opens a session with domain-id=1, the 
> same happens.
> >> > - When the user tries to access another domain, we return
> >> >   SA_ERR_HPI_INVALID_DOMAIN
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Case 3, when openhpiclient.conf defines multiplee 
> domains (for the
> >> > example
> >> > let's use two domains id 1 and 2)
> >> >
> >> > - When the user opens a session with
> >> > domain-id=SAHPI_UNSPECIFIED_DOMAIN_ID,
> >> >   we don't call a daemon.
> >> > - When the user calls saHpiDomainInfoGet() we provide 
> domain-id 0.
> >> >   But there are no resources. Maybe even events are not
> >> needed (there
> >> > could be
> >> >   events with type domain. But we don't change the set of
> >> domains that
> >> > are
> >> >   defined - that is are on DRT of default domain, so we
> >> will never issue
> >> > such
> >> >   event)
> >> > - The user should call saHpiDrtEntryGet() in this session
> >> to read which
> >> > domains
> >> >   are defined.
> >> >   We don't implement peer domains, so all domains are
> >> "related non-peer
> >> > domains"
> >> >   as described on p.26.
> >> > - The user then should open sessions with domains 1 and 2.
> >> And work with
> >> > them.
> >> > - I think the DRT of domain 1 and 2 can still be empty.
> >> >
> >> > Currently we have defined domain 0 in all cases, always 
> fixed to the
> >> > daemon
> >> > localhost:4743. This behavior is ok for all cases. If
> >> somebody doesn't
> >> > like
> >> > that domain, he can avoid starting that daemon and use a
> >> different port.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Is this the behavior we need in a first step?
> >> > When we agree on that we can start to discuss how we
> >> implement it in our
> >> >
> >> > architecture.
> >> > In later steps, real domains could have related non-peer
> >> domains, and in
> >> > later
> >> > future we could go to peer domains.
> >> >
> >> >
> >
> > ... snip
> > deleted old stuff.
> >
> >
> >
> > 
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