[openib-general] A Couple of verbs/mthca/firmware questions

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Hello!
Here's the answer from our firmware developers:

Quoting r. Hal Rosenstock (hnrose at earthlink.net) "[openib-general] A Couple of verbs/mthca/firmware questions":
> Hi,
>  
> I have a couple of questions relative to verbs/mthca/firmware:
>  
> 1. On received packets, the LRH is not visible but there are some WC
> fields set. One of those fields is dlid_path_bits. dlid_path_bits seems
> to be the same regardless of whether the incoming DR SMP was sent to the
> actual DLID or the permissive DLID. Is there a way to distinguish these
> cases ?   
>  
1. dlid_path_bits are the 0-7 LSB from the DLID in LRH. permissive LID
is not distinguished.

> 2. If a status is set in the MAD header and a post_send is issued on
> that MAD, should that status be sent in the packet ? Is there any
> conversion of the status field which might occur ?

2. no conversion and no modification is done to the MAD.


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