[ofw] [PATCH] Make WSD use new IBAT library

Sean Hefty sean.hefty at intel.com
Wed Jul 2 14:24:19 PDT 2008


>The GetIpNetEntry2 function doesn't take an overlapped, so making it an
>overlapped operation would be a tad difficult without kicking off a thread and
>having the thread poll periodically (or some similar concept).

There's no notification mechanisms available to know when these tables have
changed?  Something like NotifyRouteChange2 that could indicate that polling at
least has a chance to succeed, even if the change was to an unrelated route.  I
would think even ipoib could generate such an event.

>Pending is related to the resolution.  The IP Helper library will cause an ARP
>to be sent if there isn't a valid entry for that destination.  IPoIB will send
>the ARP, the recipient will do a PR query to send the response.  I don't know
>which of the operations actually cause the state to be returned as incomplete,
>though, just that I saw it come back as such, and wanted to allow MS MPI to go
>do something else (such as try to connect to someone else if needed) rather
>than block and poll.

This could be a long wait, especially on larger fabrics during job start-up.

- Sean




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