[ewg] RE: Agenda for the OFED meeting today (Jan 5, 09)

[Jeff Squyres]

On Jan 5, 2009, at 5:16 PM, Hal Rosenstock wrote:

> Don't get me wrong; I'm all for improving the SA scalability; there's
> no quick solution to this AFAIK.
>
> It would be interesting to see an apples to apples comparison of
> OpenSM and proprietary SMs in terms of running on the same hardware
> and the transaction rate for various things.
>
> I think this warrants an open discussion if people are serious about
> working on this issue.

Agreed.  I agree that this set of issues has come up many times before  
on the list; it will be interesting to see if anyone will *do*  
anything about it this time.  :-)

(obviously, I'm only interested as a consumer of the end result)

>> It might also be worthwhile to start a whole new discussion about  
>> making a
>> better CM (at least from the ULP perspective). One that offers simple
>> mechanisms for those who don't need/care about the details, but  
>> also offers
>> complex/detailed mechanisms (perhaps remarkably like today's  
>> mechanisms).
>
> I've heard similar comments before but this too will take significant
> where-with-all IMO.


Ditto my above remarks.  :-)

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Jeff Squyres
Cisco Systems