[openib-general] Missining Infiniband class fields

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at mellanox.co.il
Thu Dec 9 09:03:42 PST 2004


Hello!
Quoting r. shaharf (shaharf at voltaire.com) "[openib-general] Missining Infiniband class fields":
> 2. I need an interface for setting/clearing IS_SM bit. If there is such please
> let me know. If not, I would like to add an additional ioctl to set/clear the
> IS_SM bit. A ctl file in /dev/?/ports/?/ is anther option. Please tell me what
> do you think.

Please note that you want to clear this bit automatically if the
application set it and then dies.
One way to do this is to require that the user keeps some file
open while he wants to be the SM, and clear it on file close.

mst



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