[openib-general] RE: QoS RFC

[Eitan Zahavi]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hal Rosenstock [mailto:halr at voltaire.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 5:50 PM
> To: Eitan Zahavi
> Cc: Roland Dreier; openib-general at openib.org; Nimrod Gindi; Aviram
Gutman;
> Sasha Khapyorsky; sean.hefty at intel.com; Vu Pham; Roland Dreier
> Subject: RE: QoS RFC
> 
> On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 10:51, Eitan Zahavi wrote:
> > Hi Roland,
> > >
> > > This is OK but it's sort of a pain to have to query SA
ClassPortInfo
> > > all the time.  Do you have a plan for how to make this transparent
to
> > ULPs?
> > [EZ] Well, a ULP that uses CMA will have it handled by CMA...
> > But an old SM implementation that does not support this kind of
> > PathRecord extension will probably choke on the new fields once
their
> > component mask bits are set.
> 
> What do you mean by "choke" ? Wouldn't the new components just be
> ignored ?
[EZ] By choke I mean - the SA might decide to error the request on
invalid parameter.
> 
> > You could however query once for each Client-Reregister event.
> > >
> > > (BTW something in your email client is really messing up the
> > > formatting of your message)
> > [EZ] Thanks I will resend .
> > >
> > >  - R.
>