[openib-general] IPoIB Loading and Starting

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 13:46, Michael Krause wrote: 
> In what I was proposing, the change in IP service being provided for a
> given partition would result in a service event notification.  You are
> correct that unless an endnode periodically examines its P_Key table
> per port for change, there is no method to know that an admin has
> effected a change in the partition space.  The IP service with event
> notification would provide this state change as a service event.

Are you saying that when a particular service record is created in the
SA, an event is generated to a set of interested endnodes ? I don't
think there is a way to do that. The only choice is for the endnode 
to continue to poll the service records based on the matching criteria
which we would need to define (ServiceID or name perhaps).

> It isn't required that an endnode leave but if there is one around to
> listen, why remain in the multicast group.

I don't think there is a way to tell a node is the last (full) member of
the group. Anyhow, if this were done, how would that node know to rejoin
once another node came along ?

-- Hal