[openib-general] RE: QoS RFC

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 10:51, Eitan Zahavi wrote:
> Hi Roland,
> > 
> > This is OK but it's sort of a pain to have to query SA ClassPortInfo
> > all the time.  Do you have a plan for how to make this transparent to
> ULPs?
> [EZ] Well, a ULP that uses CMA will have it handled by CMA... 
> But an old SM implementation that does not support this kind of
> PathRecord extension will probably choke on the new fields once their
> component mask bits are set.

What do you mean by "choke" ? Wouldn't the new components just be
ignored ?

> You could however query once for each Client-Reregister event.
> > 
> > (BTW something in your email client is really messing up the
> > formatting of your message)
> [EZ] Thanks I will resend .
> > 
> >  - R.