[ofa-general] Standby OpenSM reporting "Bad LinearFDBTop" value

[Sasha Khapyorsky]

On 14:35 Thu 13 Mar     , Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 21:36 +0000, Sasha Khapyorsky wrote:
> > On 07:10 Thu 13 Mar     , Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> > > 
> > > Isn't message which states "Forcing correction to 0x0" misleading
> > 
> > It is in sense of OpenSM internal SwitchInfo representation.
> 
> The message is unclear and makes it seem like it is updating SwitchInfo.

Which message would be better? Would care about the patch?

> > > on
> > > standby and should be conditionalized for master only ?
> > 
> > The message? Why? It should fix this value anyway.
> 
> on the standby ? For later, if it becomes master ?

Yes (although SwitchInfo should be refetched on new heavy sweep), and
in general there is no reason to keep invalid data in OpenSM, so I think
the warning is valid. The text itself can mislead...

Sasha