[openib-general] Scalable Monitoring - RFC

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Mon Nov 20 09:10:58 PST 2006


 > * scale up to 48k nodes 
 > *  16 ports which gets to about 1,000,000 ports.
 >     (16 ports per device is average for 32 ports for switch and 1 for
 > HCA)

This math seems off -- even with ~48K HCAs and a 3-tier fabric, you
only end up with 6 * 48K ports, which is less than 300K.  Why would
anyone sensible build a fabric with 1M ports?




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