[openib-general] [PATCH] osm: Added FatTree routing to the osm manual

Yevgeny Kliteynik kliteyn at dev.mellanox.co.il
Tue Dec 19 13:43:48 PST 2006


Added FatTree routing to the osm manual

Signed-off-by: Yevgeny Kliteynik <kliteyn at dev.mellanox.co.il>
---
 osm/man/opensm.8 |   8 +++++++-
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/osm/man/opensm.8 b/osm/man/opensm.8
index 316232d..225918d 100644
--- a/osm/man/opensm.8
+++ b/osm/man/opensm.8
@@ -391,7 +391,7 @@ Examples:
 
 .SH ROUTING
 .PP
-OpenSM offers two routing engines:
+OpenSM offers three routing engines:
 
 1.  Min Hop Algorithm - based on the minimum hops to each node where the
 path length is optimized.
@@ -401,6 +401,12 @@ node, but it is constrained to ranking r
 if the subnet is not a pure Fat Tree, and deadlock may occur due to a
 loop in the subnet.
 
+3.  Fat Tree Unicast routing algorithm - this algorithm optimizes routing 
+for congestion-free "shift" communication pattern.
+It should be chosen if a subnet is a symmetrical Fat Trees of various types,
+not just K-ary-N-Trees: non-constant K, not fully staffed, any CBB ratio.
+Similar to UPDN, Fat Tree routing is constrained to ranking rules.
+
 OpenSM also supports a file method which can load routes from a table. See
 \'Modular Routing Engine\' for more information on this.
 
-- 
1.4.4.1.GIT





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