[openib-general] Re: IPoIB Path Static Rate

Roland Dreier roland at topspin.com
Thu Dec 16 15:31:32 PST 2004


    Hal> It looks to me like after obtaining the PathRecord, the
    Hal> static rate is not used when the AV is created. Shouldn't it
    Hal> be ? Is there an issue with doing this ? There is a similar
    Hal> issue with the multicast AVs as well. I know there is an
    Hal> assumption that everything is 4x but I am not sure that is
    Hal> good one to lock in.

Ultimately we probably will want to do static rate correctly, but I
decided to punt on this for now because it's not trivial to determine
the correct IPD to use, and IPoIB doesn't really inject packets at
rates beyond 1X anyway.

 - R.



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