[ofa-general] [PATCH] ipoib: refresh path when remote lid changes

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Moni Shoua <monis at voltaire.com> wrote:

>
> >     > Is the LMC in the above from the local port ? Unfortunately, LMC
> >     is not
> >     > required to be uniform across the subnet so the remote port's LMC
> may
> >     > not be the same as that on the local port.
> >
> >     opensm configures the same LMC to all endports (CA) in the fabric so
> >     in which case do you suspect that
> >     it will be different?
> >
> >
> > I wasn't talking about the simplification that OpenSM uses but rather
> > what IBA allows. There may be other SMs which do this or OpenSM could be
> > extended (with additional configuration for this).
> >
> > -- Hal
>
> So I guess a possible solutions for that is to query each suspected node
> before making a decision to flush it.
> When getting the node info response the true LMC can be put in the LID
> check function.
>

I'm not following how you are saying to determine the true LMC (of the
remote port).

-- Hal
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