[openib-general] [PATCH] librdmacm: fix bug causing failure to work with partial membership pkey

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 02:28, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 15:45, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> >> On 21 Feb 2007 08:20:23 -0500, Hal Rosenstock <halr at voltaire.com> wrote:
> 
> >> If the IPoIB spec does not allow both partial and full members of a
> >> partition to share a broadcast domain (eg the IPv4 broadcast group
> >> associated with the full membership pkey) or any other multicast
> >> group, burn it (or at least the relevant section).
> 
> > I was referring to the IB spec, not an IPoIB RFC.
> 
> Can you provide a pointer?

See MCMemberRecord:P_Key description in table 210 (p. 908).

> >> The OpenIB code supposed to work and as done with the RDMA CM header,
> >> the implementation should not wait for spec to be written or changed.
> 
> > Really ? Maybe I'm mistaken but I didn't think that OpenIB/OpenFabrics
> > wanted to issue code which is not IBA spec compliant.
> 
> The code resides in the Linux kernel, period. Linux is not under the 
> control of this or that organization, period, period. Linux uses an 
> hierarchic maintainship structure where Roland, Sean and yourself are 
> listed as the maintainers, which means you are able to promote and/or 
> block this or that agenda, go for it!

OpenIB claims IBA compliance (currently mostly v1.2) and is there any
good reason that we shouldn't continue to adhere to this ?

-- Hal

> Or.