limitation in terms of scalability, I did some tests with cluster sizes
varying from 64 to 64k nodes. I saw the same kind of performance issues
that you saw with large sizes (more than a few thousands nodes).

Looking at the code, I noticed that the hash table of the node records
was not built before the construction of the topology information in
slurmctld ! Making sure that the hash table is present really reduces
the built time.

This patch ensures that and enable to get sub-second built time
for topology information in scenarios that were used to require a
minute before.

I think that using this patch, the load time of slurm confs is less
problematic.

implemented.

using switch topology information.

Job requeue test assumed the job would not be started immediately
after requeue, but that could happend and result in a test
reporting FAILURE, when the job really was requeued.

Conflicts:
	testsuite/expect/test21.24

(commit 4cd63575)
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page.

in theory that is a possible combo returned.

configured then srun will use its dynamic ports only from the configured
range.

Also make wait_for_job in the global tests file more robust by
checking for a zero job ID

Conflicts:
	META
	NEWS

Conflicts:
	testsuite/expect/test17.34

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