[lustre-discuss] Lustre 2.12 routing with MR and discovery off

[Faaland, Olaf P.]

Does Lustre 2.12 require that routes for every intermediate network are defined, on every node on a path?

For example, given this Lustre network, where:
  A-D are nodes and 1-6 are addresses
  network tcp2 has only routers, no clients and no servers

A(1) -tcp1- (2)B(3) -tcp2- (4)C(5) -tcp3- (6)D

And configured routes:

A: options lnet routes="tcp3 2 at tcp1"
B: options lnet routes="tcp3 4 at tcp2"
C: options lnet routes="tcp1 3 at tcp2"
D: options lnet routes="tcp1 5 at tcp3"

With Lustre <= 2.10 we configured only these routes.  The only nodes that need to know tcp2 exist are attached to it, and so there are no routes to tcp2 defined anywhere.

It looks to me like Lustre 2.12 attempts to send error notifications back to the original sender, and so nodes A and D may end up receiving messages from nids on tcp2.  This then requires nodes A and D to have routes to tcp2 defined, so they can reply to the messages.

Is that correct?

thanks,
Olaf


-Olaf