[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 0/4] opensm: Unicast Routing Cache

Sasha Khapyorsky sashak at voltaire.com
Sun Jun 29 14:50:13 PDT 2008


On 00:33 Mon 30 Jun     , Sasha Khapyorsky wrote:
> 
> Another thing we may want to add (but it is not related to routing cache
> or incremental routing) it to keep two sets of LFTs with switch object
> for validation purposes - "requested" (filled by routing algorithm) and
> "real" (filled from responded MADs).

Actually even this is not needed. If OpenSM tried to set some LFT block
and failed it is better to try again (or re-request a heavy sweep), such
validation could be done on per-block basic in LFT MADs receiver -
nothing fancy.

Sasha



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