[ofa-general] Re: [OPENSM PATCH 0/5]: New "guid-routing-order" option for updn routing

Sasha Khapyorsky sashak at voltaire.com
Mon Jun 16 09:05:46 PDT 2008


On 08:52 Mon 16 Jun     , Al Chu wrote:
> >
> > Something like:
> > 
> >   foreach switch reverse (higher is first) sorted by number of active links
> >     foreach port connected to the switch
> >       do_rounting()
> 
> What do you mean by "foreach switch reverse"?

"reverse sorted". So first routed ports will be ones connected to leaf
switch with highest number of active links.

> > IMO min hops algo could benefit from this feature just well. If so this
> > simplifies implementation - patches 2,3,4 are not needed, code from patch
> > 5 is going to osm_ucast_mgr.c. What do you think?
> 
> Sounds like a plan.  I will adjust when I adjust for the preserve-base-
> lids patch too.

Cool. Thanks.

Sasha



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