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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Hi Tzachi,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Please see my answers below.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Tzachi Dar [mailto:tzachid@mellanox.co.il] <br>
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 11:48 PM<br>
To: <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Slava Strebkov</st1:PersonName><br>
Cc: ofw@lists.openfabrics.org<br>
Subject: RE: [ofw] RE: IPoIB partition patch</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Hi Slava,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>I have been looking at the partition patch and I have two questions:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>1) The function bus_add_pkey can be called twice. Once from proxy_ioctl<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>and once from ioc_ioctl. I guess that one of them is redundant. Is that<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>true?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'>Yes, proxy_ioctl is
redundant, sorry I forgot to remove. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>2) I have noticed that when entering guids I have to do a byte swap of<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>the GUID. That is if I look at the GUID as it is printed by vstat than
I<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>have to do the swap manually. Is there any reason for that?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold'>I took GUID from Device manager
(device ID). That’s the only reason for byte swap.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Tzachi<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'>Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'>Slava<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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