RE: [Tipc-discussion] 64-bit processor node id

[Ling, X. <xia...@in...>]

currently nodeid is only 12bit, and a whole tipc address is 32bit, =
including zone,cluster, and node three part.
Seems it is not so simple to change it to 64bit.

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> Subject: [Tipc-discussion] 64-bit processor node id
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> Currently I see the driver.c uses a "int node" to store
> the process node id.  So it will be 32-bit node id on
> 32-bit processors.
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> I am thinking that whether we can make it 64-bit. The reason is=20
> that 64-bit integer is enough to store ethernet MAC address.=20
> So in order to generate a cluster-wide unique node id the=20
> managment planes on different nodes don't need exchange any=20
> network packets because they can simply use MAC addresses=20
> as their node ids.
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> One motivation of using TIPC in our project is that we can=20
> avoid the complexity of IP address managment in a stack of L2=20
> switches. With 64-bit node id, I guess every node in our=20
> stack can start tipc totally independent from others.
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> Will there be negative impact of 64-bit node id on the tipc ?
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> Thank you!
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> Kevin
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