[openib-general] IPoIB Loading and Starting

Roland Dreier roland at topspin.com
Tue Sep 28 08:38:57 PDT 2004


    Hal> At IBA 1.2, C15-0.1.22 is obsolete and has been replaced by
    Hal> C15-0.2.1.  C15-0.2.1: When a requester node sends a trusted
    Hal> request to SA, the requested data shall be returned. When a
    Hal> requester node sends a non-trusted request for data to SA
    Hal> that would provide information about a subject node, the SA
    Hal> shall return only data providing information about subject
    Hal> nodes for which the requester shares a P_Key, with exceptions
    Hal> noted below in C15-0.1.23.

Hmm, this seems like the only difference from C15-0.1.22 is that it
talks about trusted requests.  C15-0.1.23 (below) still says that
MCMemberRecords don't provide information about any subject nodes, so
I guess the SM should not worry about P_Keys when returning the table
of multicast groups.

    Roland> C15-0.1.23: [...] MCMemberRecords shall always be provided
    Roland> with the PortGID, Join- State and ProxyJoin components set
    Roland> to 0, except for the case of a trusted request, in which
    Roland> case the actual component contents shall be provided.

 - Roland



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