[ofiwg] [libfabric-users] feature requests

[Oucharek, Doug S]

The primary address maps to a list of addresses where the primary address appears again alongside of the other addresses in the bond.  If the primary address fails, it is removed from the list, but the application continues to use the primary address for operations and we map it to the list sans the actual primary address (i.e. we use all of the other endpoints).

Doug

> On Jun 6, 2017, at 4:57 PM, Hefty, Sean <sean.hefty at intel.com> wrote:
> 
>> We just recently added Multi-Rail support to LNet (Lustre networking
>> layer).  We designate a “primary address” which is mapped to a list of
>> addresses for Multi-Rail.  The application only uses the primary
>> address to send/receive from the peer.
> 
> How did you handle the full address exchange?  Does a failure to the primary address result in any issues?