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Add description of preloading GID and LID destination caches to acm_notes.txt

PATCH In review Hal Rosenstock 1 participant 1 message Jun 27, 2013 InfiniBand

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PATCH v2 11/16 Add description of preloading GID and LID destination caches to acm_notes.txt

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Change since v1:
Updated for changes in previous patch v2 10/16

 acm_notes.txt |   10 ++++++++++
 man/ibacm.1   |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
acm_notes.txt +10 -0
index 99eaf9a..50f0286 100644
@@ -128,3 +128,13 @@ The current implementation of the IB ACM has several additional restrictions:
   limited to 4.
 - The number of multicast groups that an endpoint can support is limited to 2.
 
+The ibacm contains several internal caches.  These include  caches  for
+GID  and  LID  destination  addresses.   These caches can be optionally
+preloaded. ibacm supports the OpenSM dump_pr plugin  "full"  PathRecord
+format which is used to preload these caches.  The file format is specified
+in the ibacm_opts.cfg file via the path_rec_fmt parameter which should
+be set to full_opensm_v1 for  this file format.  Default format is
+none which does not preload these caches.  See dump_pr.notes.txt in dump_pr
+for more information on the full_opensm_v1 file format and how to configure
+OpenSM to generate this file.
+
man/ibacm.1 +1 -1
index 3a1e212..7c5f83d 100644
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ preloaded. ibacm supports the OpenSM dump_pr plugin "full" PathRecord
 format which is used to preload these caches.
 The file format is specified in the ibacm_opts.cfg file via the
 path_rec_fmt parameter which should be set to full_opensm_v1 for this file
-format.  Default is none which does not preload these caches.
+format.  Default format is none which does not preload these caches.
 See dump_pr.notes.txt in dump_pr for more information on the
 full_opensm_v1 file format and how to configure OpenSM to
 generate this file.
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