[openfabrics-ewg] Changes in SM for the new SRP daemon
Roland Dreier
rdreier at cisco.com
Wed Apr 5 15:23:50 PDT 2006
Todd> Ishai, The algorithm you describe is incomplete. I assume
Todd> by:
Ishai> From the response to this query the initiator can check if
Ishai> this port is an SRP target. (dm bit capability is set)
Todd> That you will stop at the SA query step and assume all ports
Todd> supporting a DM are SRP targets. There can of course be
Todd> other nodes in a fabric which support a DM but do not
Todd> support SRP.
Todd> To be complete, DM queries must be made to the identified
Todd> nodes to check their IOCs and Service entries to identify
Todd> what protocols they support. Only those which have
Todd> available IOCs and have Service entries supporting SRP
Todd> should be considered SRP targets.
Obviously he has to do the full IO unit and service table query.
Otherwise there would be no way to know what service to connect to
when trying to reach the SRP target.
So I don't think you have to worry about that.
- R.
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