[ofa-general] Some problem about the LID selection.

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 4:25 AM, Jordan<acceptany at gmail.com> 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.
> 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 .
>
> Does OFED provide such algorithm to manage  which path should to choose ?

Path(s) that the SA return to the client are based on the type of
request (e.g. Get v. GetTable, and which components are matched (LIDs,
GIDs, NumbPaths if GetTable, etc.). If the request results in multiple
path records in the response, the client is free to choose one of
those.

-- Hal

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