[openib-general] Handling SM class (SMInfo vs. other queries)
Sean Hefty
mshefty at ichips.intel.com
Fri Oct 22 15:20:12 PDT 2004
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 14:25:34 -0700
Roland Dreier <roland at topspin.com> wrote:
> All these special cases are starting to look pretty awkward. Another
> solution is to get rid of the snoop_mad entry point and the SMA and
> PMA agents in ib_smi, and just pass every MAD to the low-level
> driver. The low-level driver can decide to handle it (consume it
> and/or generate a response) or not. Everything not consumed by the
> low-level driver gets put through agent dispatch as usual.
I think I'm missing something here. I thought that the snoop_mad entry point was the solution to this issue.
- Sean
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