[ofa-general] Re: [PATCHv2] opensm: Parallelize (Stripe) LFT sets across switches

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Sasha Khapyorsky <sashak at voltaire.com>wrote:

> On 10:43 Wed 05 Aug     , Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> >
> > Should this be done as a separate step on the way to the LFT
> parallelization
> > across switches ?
>
> What do you mean by "separate step" (separate from what)?


Separate patches: first to move the osm_ucast_mgr_set_fwd_table call up a
level and a second one to the implement the LFT parallelization across
switches underneath that.


>
>
> I'm trying to replay the idea again: each routing engine calculates LFTs
> and fill sw->new_lfts array accordingly, after all it calls a procedure
> for sending switches' LFT blocks (and TOPs). So routing engine itself
> should not care about how exactly LFT blocks update MADs submission is
> actually implemented.
>


Yes, understood.

-- Hal


>
> Sasha
>
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