[openib-general] MAD layer needs for porting SA client code

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 15:38, Roland Dreier wrote:
>     Hal> Just wanted to double check on the MAD layer needs for
>     Hal> porting the current SA client code (for Get PathRecord and
>     Hal> Set/Delete/Get MCMemberRecord for IPoIB). Is it correct that
>     Hal> this code does not rely on request/response matching (and
>     Hal> timeouts) currently ? If not, those aspects of the code do
>     Hal> not need to be tested before declaring the MAD layer as
>     Hal> usable.
> 
> SA queries definitely rely on matching responses to requests and on
> timeouts.  I don't see how we can sanely make SA queries otherwise.

Yes, someone has to do it.

For the current SA query code, is this done inside the MAD layer (rather
than on top of it) ? I thought that might not be the case based on an
email thread on this with Yaron but perhaps I don't recall the details
correctly.

-- Hal