[openib-general] [CM] what happen if the path in the REQ packet (primary or alternate) is not reversible?

Dotan Barak dotanb at dev.mellanox.co.il
Mon Nov 27 23:30:57 PST 2006


Hal Rosenstock wrote:

>On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 14:24, Sean Hefty wrote:
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>>dotanb at dev.mellanox.co.il wrote:
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>>>The reason is that today there aren't many (any?) heterogeneous clusters
>>>with SDR and DDR nodes, but we need to be prepared ..
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>>Would that affect whether a path is reversible?
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>That shouldn't affect a path's reversibility. There might be a better
>path though...
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>-- Hal
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What i meant was that the properties of the path X-->Y and Y-->X may be 
different at least in one property:
for example, the paths may be the same expect for the static_rate_bits .....

Dotan




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