[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH] opensm/opensm/osm_subnet.c: add checks for HOQ and Leaf HOQ input values

Sasha Khapyorsky sashak at voltaire.com
Wed Apr 9 13:46:03 PDT 2008


On 08:38 Wed 09 Apr     , weiny2 at llnl.gov wrote:
> 
> What if we set it to 0x13?  This would be the maximum value that will not
> "lock" up the fabric.  We could also add to the error message that the
> admin needs to specify 0x14 if they specifically want "infinity" to be
> set?

I think in the case when parameter value provided by user is wrong it
is not easy to guess correctly what original wishes was. Probably we
just need to add something like:

  ## valid values are <= 0x14

in config file template and reject any invalid values (I mean set to
defaults)?

Sasha



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