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Update partitions.conf docs for rate and mtu fixes #31 #32

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Document the magic rate and mtu values
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44 changes: 38 additions & 6 deletions doc/partition-config.txt
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Expand Up @@ -91,10 +91,42 @@ General file format:
bits.

mgroup_flag:
rate=<val> - specifies rate for this MC group
(default is 3 (10GBps))
mtu=<val> - specifies MTU for this MC group
(default is 4 (2048))
rate=<val> - specifies rate selector for this MC group
| Selector | Gb/s | |
|----------|--------|---------|
| 2 | 2.5 | |
| 3 | 10 | default |
| 4 | 30 | |
| 5 | 5 | |
| 6 | 20 | |
| 7 | 40 | |
| 8 | 60 | |
| 9 | 80 | |
| 10 | 120 | |
| 11 | 14 | |
| 12 | 56 | |
| 13 | 112 | |
| 14 | 168 | |
| 15 | 25 | |
| 16 | 100 | |
| 17 | 200 | |
| 18 | 300 | |
| 19 | 28 | |
| 20 | 50 | |
| 21 | 400 | |
| 22 | 600 | |
| 23 | 800 | |
| 24 | 1200 | |

mtu=<val> - specifies MTU selector for this MC group
| Selector | MTU | |
|----------|--------|---------|
| 1 | 256 | |
| 2 | 512 | |
| 3 | 1024 | |
| 4 | 2048 | default |
| 5 | 4096 | |

sl=<val> - specifies SL for this MC group
(default is 0)
scope=<val> - specifies scope for this MC group
Expand All @@ -117,8 +149,8 @@ General file format:
NOTE: All mgroup_flag flags MUST be separated by comma (,).

Note that values for rate, mtu, and scope, for both partitions and multicast
groups, should be specified as defined in the IBTA specification (for example,
mtu=4 for 2048).
groups, should be specified as defined in the IBTA specification.
For example, "mtu=5" to allow 4K MTU sizes of 4096.

There are several useful keywords for PortGUID definition:

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