[openib-general] Some Missing Features from mthca/user MAD access

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Hello!
Quoting r. Hal Rosenstock (halr at voltaire.com) "Re: [openib-general] Some Missing Features from mthca/user MAD access":
> On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 13:43, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > I am trying to say it could be transparent. you could be running
> > two sms and it could work more or less.
> 
> I am not 100% sure that the SM state machine works for 2 SMs with the
> same port GUID and priority.
> 
> I think there may also an issue in the MAD layer API in terms of this in
> terms of receiving SMInfos and getting them to the correct SM.
> 
> If this (running 2 SMs on the same port) is important, I can look into
> this further.
> 
> -- Hal

Well, I was thinking for things like failover it could be nice.

Or another example, I thought it would be nice if I could
do all kind of queries for diagnostic purposes,
without the need to integrate them directly into the SM code.

Nothing specific, though.
mst