***SPAM*** Re: [ofw] Expose a vendor defined device in ibbus?

[Deepak Gupta]

Please see below.

Regards
Deepak

On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 12:42 AM, Fab Tillier <
ftillier at windows.microsoft.com> wrote:

> > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:43 PM, Fab Tillier
> > <ftillier at windows.microsoft.com> wrote:
> >> Are there other properties that I have missed that are needed?
> >
> > We need a way in which devices created should be configured for
> > failovers ( ULPs like VNIC, SRP need more configurable failovers).
> > Looking at IBAL's code it create the devices based on the reachable
> > IOC's and thus failover's are possible across the HCA/ports and not
> > across two different IOCs.
> > Users can have a case in which two different IOCs connected to same
> > physical network/storage (redundancy is provided for high availability)
> > and want a failover across the IOCs.
>
> This would be done via LBFO for network devices, and MPIO for storage
> devices.  I think having the bus driver report a single IOC that really maps
> to two IOCs on the fabric is asking for management problems.  Further,
> LBFO/MPIO can provide failover between different device types, so the
> failover devices don't have to be identical HW.


I don't know about how MPIO works. But for LBFO,  BundleID param will have
to be included in extended params then so that user gets the freedom of
bundling  different failover configurations.


>
>
> -Fab
>
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