[openib-general] RE: QoS RFC

[Eitan Zahavi]

> 
>  > [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.
>  > You could however query once for each Client-Reregister event.
> 
> Right, but for example SRP cannot use the CMA because the SRP protocol
> does not use IP addressing.
> 
> It seems that the SA query module is really the right place to handle
> the query of ClassPortInfo, caching results, invalidating cache on
> client-reregister, etc.
[EZ] Yes I agree SA client might be the right place for dealing with the
different SA optional capabilities .
> 
>  - R.