[ofa-general] [PATCH] opensm/osm_pkey_mgr.c: setting only outbound partition enforcement on switch

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Thu, 2007-12-27 at 16:13 +0000, Sasha Khapyorsky wrote:
> Hi Hal,
> 
> On 07:00 Thu 27 Dec     , Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-12-25 at 14:29 +0200, Yevgeny Kliteynik wrote:
> > > Fixing wrong setting of partition enforcement bits on switch ports.
> > > When an HCA port is configured with a certain pkey, the peer port
> > > on the switch should turn on outbound partition enforcement bit only.
> > > Turning on the inbound enforcement will cause the switch to drop
> > > valid packets if the HCA is partial member.
> > 
> > Inbound enforcement is actually the more useful case. If there is
> > inbound enforcement, outbound enforcement doesn't add much.
> > 
> > In the case of partial only (not both partial and full) membership, the
> > peer switch physical port would need to be set to full membership.
> 
> Then it could break outbound enforcement. Isn't it?

What I wrote was wrong. Limited pkey is sufficient. See o18-14

> 
> Sasha