RE: APM support for IPoIB

["Paul Grun" <pgrun-klaOcWyJdxkshyMvu7JE4pqQE7yCjDx5@public.gmane.org>]

Jason - Like your idea for full APM support especially across subnets, but
wouldn't that require some sort capability that lives above the subnet level
and is able to query both SMs/SAs?  Sounds vaguely router-ish?
-Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org [mailto:linux-rdma-
> owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Jason Gunthorpe
> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2012 4:53 PM
> To: Bang Nguyen
> Cc: linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org; Richard Frank
> Subject: Re: APM support for IPoIB
> 
> On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 03:23:38PM -0700, Bang Nguyen wrote:
> 
> > Adding APM support for IPoIB seems like something worthwhile and we're
> > thinking about it..but are wondering why has hasn't been done
> > already..any comments/suggestions?
> 
> I've been quite supportive of APM in the past, IMHO I think it is
> something unique to IB that should be exploited as often as possible.
> 
> Improving the RDMA-CM to setup APM at all would be a great first step, but
> some SM work is also ultimately needed to get sufficiently
> independent/redundant paths.
> 
> I would like to see the full APM support eventually implemented - this
> would be fail over across adaptor ports, where each port is on a seperate
> subnet - so you get full redundancy of cabling, switching and management
> software.
> 
> Jason
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