Re: PATCH: opensm enhancements

[Hal Rosenstock <hal-LDSdmyG8hGV8YrgS2mwiifqBs+8SCbDb@public.gmane.org>]

HI Jeff,

On 6/26/2013 5:24 PM, Jeff Becker wrote:
> Hi Hal. At the OFA workshop, I mentioned that I've been working on some
> modifications to opensm that we use at NASA. Following extensive testing
> of these applied to opensm 3.3.13 (the version we run here), I have
> ported these to top of tree opensm, and have tested them on a small
> cluster.

Thanks for getting this done! For future reference, patches should be
sent as plain text as this makes it easier to comment.

> The first patch modifies the console logflush command to take "on" or
> "off" as an argument for toggling. 

Thanks. Applied.

> The second (more extensive) patch
> adds a command line option to specify a file in which each line contains
> a switch GUID/port pair to be ignored by opensm. The idea is to specify
> this file when you start opensm (it can be empty), and add ports to
> ignore (one per line for each end of a connection) to the file. At the
> next heavy sweep (or HUP) the sm will reprogram the forwarding tables
> without including the ignored links. We use this for replacing cables,
> as well as for system expansion (adding new racks).

I'll comment on this one later.

-- Hal

> Please let me know if you have any questions/issues with these. Thanks.
> 
> -jeff
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