[ofa-general] question about partitioning IB networks

[Sasha Khapyorsky]

On 16:43 Thu 03 Sep     , Yevgeny Kliteynik wrote:
> > 
> > I've never done it this way but it does look like the partition create 
> > code will detect the duplicated partitions (0x111 and 0x112) and merge 
> > ports from rack2 with rack1 and rack4 with rack3. 
> 
> It will.
> Note that partition names are meaningless in terms of IB management.
> Basically they are used just for logging.

Not only for logging, OpenSM will also try preserve same PKey value for
partition name over reconfiguration, and guess it is all.

Sasha