[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 3/4] opensm: resweep instead of exit when duplicated guid suspected

[Sasha Khapyorsky]

Hi Hal,

On 09:19 Mon 13 Aug     , Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> On 8/12/07, Sasha Khapyorsky <sashak at voltaire.com> wrote:
> > Anyway OpenSM will request resweep when there are suspected nodes
> > with duplicate GUID on the subnet. And because we cannot be 100% sure
> > that detected GUIDs duplication is not some corner case of port moving
> > I prefer to not exit. Endless (re)discovery and syslog messages should
> > be good indication if it is indeed this case.
> 
> Couldn't there be some duplication state kept per GUID so the messages
> only get logged on change of state to duplicated rather than
> continually spewing into the log ?

There should be one message per duplicated GUID in the sweep. The sweep
will be repeated and in the case of real duplication the message will
appear again - so it is per sweep. I hope it is not too much.

Sasha