[openib-general] IPoIB Path Rerequests and Compliance

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Thu Jul 13 13:11:42 PDT 2006


 > It appears to me that if for some reason IPoIB rerequests a path that
 > has already been resolved, it has filled in values for fields in the
 > request which are not to be honored by the SA as their component mask
 > bits are not on. While the SA responds properly to this since it ignores
 > anything which does not have the comp mask bit set, it is technically a
 > non compliance. Is this worth fixing ? If so, do you want a patch for
 > this ? (Also, I haven't yet checked any other ULPs for a similar issue).

I'm not sure this is worth fixing but I guess the right place to fix
it would be in the sa query module (so that you don't have to look at
other ULPs).

 - R.




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