[openib-general] IPoIB broadcast MC group membership

Hal Rosenstock halr at voltaire.com
Tue Feb 21 08:23:45 PST 2006


Hi Fab,

On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 11:15, Fabian Tillier wrote:
> On 21 Feb 2006 09:42:10 -0500, Hal Rosenstock <halr at voltaire.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 01:10, Fabian Tillier wrote:
> > > The lack of detailed error reporting in SA queries could stand to be
> > > improved, and something as simple as the SA returning a component mask
> > > indicating which components caused conflicts would be extremely useful
> > > in determining the next course of action.

Or at least 1 component mask bit of a conflict...

Interesting idea :-)

>   ERR_REQ_INVALID is just too
> > > broad in this case to allow the code to do anything intelligent.
> >
> > I think ERR_REQ_UNREALIZABLE helps here.
> 
> What is this ERR_REQ_UNREALIZABLE that you speak of?  Where is it
> documented?  I only see ERR_REQ_INVALID in the 1.2 spec, perhaps I
> need to look at an errata of sorts?

You're right; Unrealizable == ERR_REQ_INVALID so there is no easy way to
tell the difference.

-- Hal

> Thanks,
> 
> - Fab




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