[ofa-general] Re: [RFC] OpenSM and IPv6 Scalability Proposal

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 17:42 +0300, Sasha Khapyorsky wrote:
> On 07:01 Mon 16 Jun     , Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> > 
> > Is a 16K array of pointers preferable to some map ?
> 
> I would think so, but didn't check deeply. And in fact actual size of
> such array can be limited by max supported number of MLIDs in a fabric

Is that really a good idea to limit it in this way ? Guess it could be
limited with some configurable option but even so if a device with a
larger MFT comes along then the SM might not work.

> (which is just 1K today).

Depends on what you mean by today.

-- Hal

> 
> Sasha
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