[ofa-general] Re: [RFC] OpenSM and IPv6 Scalability Proposal

[Sasha Khapyorsky]

On 07:48 Mon 16 Jun     , Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> > 
> > I would think so, but didn't check deeply. And in fact actual size of
> > such array can be limited by max supported number of MLIDs in a fabric
> 
> Is that really a good idea to limit it in this way ? Guess it could be
> limited with some configurable option but even so if a device with a
> larger MFT comes along then the SM might not work.

I meant something else - any multicast stuff will be processed in SM
after initial subnet discovery, so it is not a big problem to detect
max needed array size in run-time. OTOH 16K for MLIDs is not a so big
deal, I would not bother with such optimization unless would explicitly
need this.

Sasha