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<p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">If you would like to use my example configuration in the man page (the one with realistic GUID’s) please feel free to do so. The GUID’s are all imaginary but realistic.</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Are you sure the default partition should be “Default=0x7fff,ipoib,rate=7:ALL,SELF=full;” and not “Default=0x7fff:SELF=full,ALL=limited;”?</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The second version forces both known and unknown CA’s to be unable to reach any CA but the sm except via their own partition.</span></font></p>
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<div>I thought that was what you wanted. I thought you only wanted the CAs to be able to talk with each other on the designated non default partitions.</div>
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<p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><span id=""></span> It also seems to me that the first version bypasses partitioning by allowing CA’s to use the default partition to reach other CA’s not in the same partition.</span></font></p>
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<div>You mean the since they are all full members of the default partition they can talk to each other on that partition despite that not being allowed on some other partition. If so, yes.</div>
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<p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Also, if you would like, I would be happy to work on a version of the man page where I would try to possibly explain a bit more and have more complete examples.</span></font></p>
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<div>Sure; if you want you are welcome to post patches to the list for review, comment, etc.</div>
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<b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, September 03, 2009 6:46 AM<br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:kliteyn@dev.mellanox.co.il" target="_blank">kliteyn@dev.mellanox.co.il</a><br>
<b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc:</span></b> Meyer, Donald J; <a href="mailto:general@lists.openfabrics.org" target="_blank">general@lists.openfabrics.org</a><br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [ofa-general] question about partitioning IB networks</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Yevgeny Kliteynik <<a href="mailto:kliteyn@dev.mellanox.co.il" target="_blank">kliteyn@dev.mellanox.co.il</a>> wrote:</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><br> Just as a sanity check, my interpretation so far is that my network<br> should have a partition configuration file similar to the following.<br>
Can anyone tell me if I have this correct? In this example<br> configuration, I am trying to create two partitions. One with rack<br> one and two, the other with rack three and four:<br><br> <br> #Default partition (for SM control of the CA’s)<br>
<br> Default=0x7fff,ipoib,rate=7:ALL=limited;<br><br>Default=0x7fff,ipoib,rate=7:ALL,SELF=full;<br><br> #rack1<br><br> rack1=0x111,ipoib,rate=7,defmember=full:<GUID_list>;<br><br> #rack2<br><br> rack2=0x111,ipoib,rate=7,defmember=full:<GUID_list>;<br>
<br> #rack3<br><br> rack3=0x112,ipoib,rate=7,defmember=full:<GUID_list>;<br><br> #rack4<br><br> rack4=0x112,ipoib,rate=7,defmember=full:<GUID_list>;<br><br>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. </span></font></p>
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