[openib-general] RE: OpenIB OpenSM and Reserved Fields on Transmit

[Eitan Zahavi]

The lowest level to catch all MAD buffer allocations is in the
osm_vendor_get() call.
It could certainly zero out the mad buffer it provides.

Eitan Zahavi
Design Technology Director
Mellanox Technologies LTD
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hal Rosenstock [mailto:halr at voltaire.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 3:00 PM
> To: Eitan Zahavi
> Cc: openib-general at openib.org
> Subject: OpenIB OpenSM and Reserved Fields on Transmit
> 
> Hi Eitan,
> 
> With OpenSM, in general, is there an approach that is being used to
> ensure the reserved fields at set to 0 on send ? I couldn't ascertain
> this from the code and I do observe reserved fields set to non 0 on
> send. One approach would be to clear the MAD when it is first obtained.
> Another would be to clear the reserved fields in each SA record. I am
> leaning towards the former approach. Is this the responsibility of the
> vendor layer ?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -- Hal
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