[openib-general][PATCH] mthca & ib_verbs.h client reregister event support

Tziporet Koren tziporet at mellanox.co.il
Sun Apr 2 23:40:05 PDT 2006


Leonid Arsh wrote:
> Of course, the FW doesn't handle the event, it handles the request by 
> sending the port info to the SM.
> It also generates an appropriate event to SW. The actual 
> re-registration is to be done by the SW in ULPs.
> An alternative way to generate the event is catching the request MAD 
> in smp_snoop, as you suggested, but the port info still will be sent 
> by the FW.
>
I actually prefer that the FW will generate the ClientReregister event 
since its already generating this event and in this way we can save 
logic in the driver.

Tziporet



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