[openib-general] Scalable Monitoring - RFC

[Roland Dreier]

 > So building a larger cluster (> 20736 nodes) will actually require 5
 > levels of switching.

Yes, I miscounted before.

 > Assuming 40000 nodes (keeping 10K LIDs for the switches) with 5
 > levels of switching will actually require 10*40000 = 400K ports.

Which is still much much less than the 1M you said before.

 > Should I assume from your mail that in your mind reading 300K or 400K
 > ports is not an issue?

If you want.  All I said was that I had a hard time seeing why anyone
would build a fabric with 1M ports.

 - R.