[ewg] OFED-1.5.1 failure over iWarp

Or Gerlitz ogerlitz at Voltaire.com
Thu Feb 4 00:28:47 PST 2010


Sean Hefty wrote:
> If I look at what's there today, we're trying to find some way to match the
> net_device src_dev_addr with some sort of address associated with an ib_device.
> In the case of actual IB, the net_device src_dev_addr contains the SGID, which
> provides the mapping.

 
> Steve, can you please clarify the iWarp case for me?  For iWarp, doesn't the
> src_dev_addr contain the MAC?  So, the 'GID's reported for an iWarp device is
> really just the MAC.  Is this correct?


> If this is the case, then couldn't rocee (I hate that name) report its MAC as
> one of its GIDs?  This would ensure that the mapping between net_device and
> ib_device was correct.

Sean, AFAIK, reporting the MAC as one of the GIDs was part of the IBoE (feel free
not to use names which you don't like) design presented couple of time, isn't it, Eli, Liran?

Or.




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