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

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 08:33, Eitan Zahavi wrote:
> 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.

Sounds like this is not being done currently. That's what I wanted to
confirm. Thanks.

-- Hal

> 
> Eitan Zahavi
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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
>