[ofa-general] How to choose a path through many of them?

[Eli Dorfman (Voltaire)]

Jordan wrote:
> When LMC > 0 , there are 2^LMC LIDs assigned to a port.  When choosing
> different LID, there maybe different paths to get to this port.(all
> these paths are valid)
> In other words, different LIDs represent different paths. But which path
> should I choose to  get to the destination? It seems that OpenSM
> does not provide such algorithm .

Since all the paths are valid you can choose any of them.
Use MultiPathRecord attribute to get all available paths from src to dst.

Eli

>  
> Does OFED provide such algorithm to manage  which path should to choose ?
> 
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