[openib-general] Some Missing Features from mthca/user MAD access
Hal Rosenstock
halr at voltaire.com
Wed Jan 5 21:03:29 PST 2005
On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 21:23, Roland Dreier wrote:
> > 1. The SM needs the ability to write (set/clear) the 'is_sm' PortInfo
> > capability mask bit (from user space).
>
> Yes, I'll implement this.
Thanks.
> > 2. There are some additional fields which would be useful to support:
> > per port
> > PortInfo:PortPhysicalState
>
> Why is this useful?
This is useful when link is not coming up: you can see what is going on
better. It replaces the need to view the LED for this.
> > NodeInfo:PortGUID
>
> I think the low 64 bits of the GID at index 0 can be used to get this.
Right.
> > per device
> > NodeInfo:NodeType
>
> Makes sense, I'll add this.
Thanks.
-- Hal
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