[ofa-general] RE: OpenSM detection of duplicated GUIDs on loopback

[Eitan Zahavi]

Hi Sasha 

I am not following you.
Why do a user need to run -y if a simple legal cable connector is
plugged?
The issue is only if a "loop back" plug connecting a port to itself is
plugged.

Do users use these plugs? For what sake?


Eitan Zahavi
Senior Engineering Director, Software Architect
Mellanox Technologies LTD
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sasha Khapyorsky [mailto:sashak at voltaire.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 3:19 AM
> To: Eitan Zahavi
> Cc: Hal Rosenstock; OpenFabrics General; Yevgeny Kliteynik
> Subject: Re: OpenSM detection of duplicated GUIDs on loopback
> 
> On 23:25 Tue 24 Jul     , Eitan Zahavi wrote:
> > 
> > 	On 7/24/07, Eitan Zahavi <eitan at mellanox.co.il> wrote: 
> > 
> > 		Maybe  avoid the log if -y is provided?
> > 
> > 	 
> > 	That avoids the spew but the duplicated GUID is 
> important to know so 
> > IMO something in the "middle" is needed where duplicated GUIDs are 
> > logged but not continually the same ones.
> > 	[EZ]  
> > 	OK so in -y mode only we track which ones were reported 
> and do not 
> > repeat the log?
> 
> And how port moving problem should be solved?
> 
> We cannot ask an user to run OpenSM with '-y' if in her/his 
> plans to reconnect some ports in a future and just decrease logging.
> 
> Sasha
>