[openib-general] routing

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 10:10, Chevchenkovic Chevchenkovic wrote:
>  Hi,
>     can any expert here help me out in this?

What SM are you using ? The routing is specific to the SM in use.

Paths are obtained via SA PathRecord or MultiPathRecords. There is more
capability in using MultiPathRecord but support varies on this per SM.

-- Hal

> -Chev
>  
> On 11/20/06, Chevchenkovic Chevchenkovic <chevchenkovic at gmail.com>
> wrote: 
>         Hi,
>           I had this query.
>          In the current infiniband implementation of routing, what
>         amount of flexibility is available to the programmer in
>         deciding the route to be taken by the ib packets. 
>         More specifically,
>         1. Can the user modify the final paths that are taken by IB
>         packets?
>         2. Can he change the algorithm used for computing this path?
>         3. During runtime, the packets are routed using the tables
>         generated by OpenSM. Is it possible to change the algorithm on
>         the ib switches so that some more intelligence can be put into
>         it?
>         Awaiting your reply,
>         -Chev
> 
> 
> 
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