[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH v3] opensm/osm_qos_policy.c: log matched QoS criteria

Yevgeny Kliteynik kliteyn at dev.mellanox.co.il
Sat Jun 21 23:40:00 PDT 2008


Yevgeny Kliteynik wrote:
> Sasha Khapyorsky wrote:
>> On 22:45 Sat 21 Jun     , Yevgeny Kliteynik wrote:
>>> No, it won't be sufficient, because some matching rules do not
>>> explain how do they match the path queries. For instance, "sdp"
>>> doesn't say what service ID does it cover.
>>
>> But selected matching rule (and qos level) will be shown - this should
>> provide basic information about what is going on. No?
> 
> ULP section of the policy file doesn't have separate qos-matching-rule
> and separate qos-level. Each line in this section internally generates
> matching rule, and links it to one of the pre-generated simple qos levels
> that has only SL.
> Do I want to explain it to the user? No. That's the whole point of the ULP
> section - the user is not aware of the full policy file syntax and 
> semantics.
> 
> However, the user does know that OSM is enforcing qos according to path 
> queries,
> and the single message that I added shows *why* certain ulp/application got
> certain SL. The patch that I've suggested help the user to understand *what*

I mean the patch that *you* have suggested.

-- Yevgeny

> matching rule was matched, but not *why*.
> 
> -- Yevgeny
> 
>> Sasha
>>
> 
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