[PVFS2-developers] BMI client pre-init all interfaces

[Pete Wyckoff]

pcarns at parl.clemson.edu said on Tue, 23 Mar 2004 17:20 -0500:
> I think the approach you outline for doing it the right way is the way
> to go, and BMI_addr_lookup() is the only place you need to check
> for new interfaces.  The server doesn't have to worry about this,
> because it still has an explicit list of interfaces to enable that it
> gets from a config file at startup.
> 
> I don't suppose you are interested in implementing this by any chance,
> are you? :)  If not I would be happy to work on it, but it might be a
> day or two, I'm kinda swamped right now.
> 
> In the long term, mult-interface BMI needs to be made to be more
> efficient as well, but I think its still ok to leave that on the
> backburner until we get caught up on some other problems.

Yeah, no problem, if it is as easy as I think it is.  I'll just see
if I can get that dang slow TCP out of my way without destroying
non-IB builds. :)

		-- Pete