[ofa-general] ***SPAM*** Re: [PATCH] opensm: update Release Notes for OpenSM version 3.2

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Sasha Khapyorsky <sashak at voltaire.com> wrote:
>
> Update Release Notes for OpenSM version 3.2
>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Khapyorsky <sashak at voltaire.com>
> ---
>  opensm/doc/opensm_release_notes-3.2.txt |  294 ++++++++++++++++++-------------
>  1 files changed, 175 insertions(+), 119 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/opensm/doc/opensm_release_notes-3.2.txt b/opensm/doc/opensm_release_notes-3.2.txt
> index 7728849..68178c4 100644
> --- a/opensm/doc/opensm_release_notes-3.2.txt
> +++ b/opensm/doc/opensm_release_notes-3.2.txt
> @@ -17,104 +17,161 @@ This document includes the following sections:
>   dependencies)

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>  1.1 Major New Features
\> +* Solicited Node Multicast addresses consolidation

IPv6 Solicited Node Multicast address consolidation

> +  When this mode is used (enabled with --consolidate_ipv6_snm_req option)
> +  OpenSM will map all IPv6 Solicited Node Multicast address join requests
> +  into a single Multicast group with address ff10:601b::1:ff00:0. In this
> +  way limited MLID space is saved. The feature is very useful with large
> +  (~> 1024 nodes) clusters.

Isn't there truth in adversing ? This should also say:

This IBA noncompliant feature may be problematic in heterogeneous
subnets (due to rate and MTU differences).

-- Hal

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