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

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 18:07 +0300, Sasha Khapyorsky wrote:
> 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.

Isn't a similar thing done in terms of unicast ?

> OTOH 16K for MLIDs is not a so big deal, I would not bother with such optimization
> unless would explicitly need this.

OK with me; I would think such an optimization is a minor change anyhow.

-- Hal

> Sasha