[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 3/3] osm: QoS - parsing port names

[Yevgeny Kliteynik]

Sasha Khapyorsky wrote:
> On 06:49 Wed 24 Oct     , Hal Rosenstock wrote:
>> On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 12:39 +0200, Sasha Khapyorsky wrote:
>>> On 10:48 Mon 15 Oct     , Yevgeny Kliteynik wrote:
>>>>>>  Switches have the NodeDescription filled by FW, and it's usually the
>>>>>>  same string for all the switches.
>>>>> It must not be same. Also I suppose that node description can be changed
>>>>> at least for some managed switches even today.
>>>>  Come on, man...
>>>>  How many cluster administrators that you know will actually go and set
>>>>  NodeDescription on switches???
>>> I know at least one asked for this.
>> Perhaps switch_map can be used in conjunction with this like in the
>> diags ?
> 
> Hmm, right, switch_map is another example of switch naming, which is
> useful with diags.
> Perhaps even more generic - guid to name map? And this will work instead
> of (or in addition to) node description when specified?

Can you elaborate on this?
What exactly is switch_map?
And why would be need an additional guid-to-anything map if we
already have node map indexed by guids (or am I missing something)?

-- Yevgeny

> Sasha
>