[openib-general] [RFC] IB/ipoib: Asynchronous events delivered without port parameter.

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

> Quoting Moni Levy <monil at voltaire.com>:
> Subject: [RFC] IB/ipoib: Asynchronous events delivered without port parameter.
> 
> Hello,
>     I did a short code review of the ipoib code concentrating on
> partitioning support and I mentioned that the asynchronous events
> handler in the ipoib code does not take the port number reported in
> the event record into consideration. The effect of that is that all of
> the ib# devices related to that specific HCA are flushed when it seems
> to me that only the relevant port one should be. Is that done on
> purpose, or am I missing something ?
> 
> Thanks,
> Moni
> 
> p.s. I'm working on a patch that should solve another issue caused by
> PKEY reordering & ipoib behavior and the above issue further
> complicates things for me.

If true, why is this a problem?

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