[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 0/2] Opensm support for external routing engines

[Sasha Khapyorsky]

Hi Vincent,

On 09:35 Thu 11 Jun     , Vincent Ficet wrote:
> 
> We worked on a scheme that allows to dynamically load external routing 
> engines.

Hmm, and why is it really needed? Why to not include routing engine code
into OpenSM?

> The plugin system is very similar to the perfmgr plugin 
> implementation.

Once it was perfmgr event plugin, now plugin API is generic so what is
the reason to make yet another plugin interface?

> It allows to provide customised vendor routing engines 
> and algorithms whithout having to recompile opensm:

Recompiling OpenSM should not be a big deal. Assuming that it still be
an open source project.

Sasha