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

[Sasha Khapyorsky]

On 08:26 Mon 16 Jun     , Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 18:07 +0300, Sasha Khapyorsky wrote:
> > On 07:48 Mon 16 Jun     , Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > 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.
> > 
> > I meant something else - any multicast stuff will be processed in SM
> > after initial subnet discovery, so it is not a big problem to detect
> > max needed array size in run-time.
> 
> Isn't a similar thing done in terms of unicast ?

Yes, with cl_vector*() and it is *slow*.

Sasha