[openib-general] RE: [openib-commits] r3137 -gen2/trunk/src/linux-kernel/infiniband/ulp/ipoib

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 22:21, Roland Dreier wrote:
>     Hal> Will 2 limited members now be able to talk with each other ?
> 
> No, that's not possible.
> 
>     Hal> If this change makes the MC requests to the full partition
>     Hal> for limited members, that seems correct (as limited MC groups
>     Hal> are useless). If it causes/also causes the UD AVs used to
>     Hal> send to have their limited PKey to be promoted to full
>     Hal> member, then that is not fine. Does it do the latter as well
>     Hal> as the former ?
> 
> No, that's not possible either.  An HCA port can only send UD messages
> with one of the P_Keys programmed into its P_Key table.

Maybe it is just the interface name (w/ifconfig) that has it's PKey
promoted to a full member of the partition then.

-- Hal