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LUDOC-494 lnet: clarify use of route hopcount 16/44916/6
authorSerguei Smirnov <ssmirnov@whamcloud.com>
Tue, 14 Sep 2021 19:23:35 +0000 (12:23 -0700)
committerAndreas Dilger <adilger@whamcloud.com>
Tue, 8 Aug 2023 22:00:15 +0000 (22:00 +0000)
commitf7da09ba79b2522ca51d001c59ab1212d051309c
tree6a39aba8cb658c1ee0489f851f063adb1a39ee0e
parent3141132e3a777d5432681718ecd4fc244fbfa23c
LUDOC-494 lnet: clarify use of route hopcount

Clarify that the default route hop setting is "undefined" (-1).
The default hopcount is interpreted as 1 when comparing routes
as part of the route selection procedure when sending.
The default hop setting may be used to create single-hop and
multi-hop routes.

Provide example to illustrate the case when hopcount should be set:
If avoid_asym_router_failure feature is enabled and single-hop
router NIs on the remote network fail to come up, using the default
hopcount will cause the route to be misinterpreted as multi-hop
and the router will still be selected for sending.

To avoid this case, set hop=1 if avoid_asym_router_failure
is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Serguei Smirnov <ssmirnov@whamcloud.com>
Change-Id: Ic0b97000b22389bb6950ad48070dd7d7682f9c56
Signed-off-by: Gian-Carlo DeFazio <defazio1@llnl.gov>
Reviewed-on: https://review.whamcloud.com/c/doc/manual/+/44916
Tested-by: jenkins <devops@whamcloud.com>
Reviewed-by: Olaf Faaland <faaland1@llnl.gov>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@whamcloud.com>
ConfigurationFilesModuleParameters.xml
ConfiguringLNet.xml
LNetConfigurationApi.xml
LNetMultiRail.xml
LustreTuning.xml
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