[openib-general] Re: QoS RFC

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 10:58, Roland Dreier wrote:
>  > [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.
>  > You could however query once for each Client-Reregister event.
> 
> Right, but for example SRP cannot use the CMA because the SRP protocol
> does not use IP addressing.
> 
> It seems that the SA query module is really the right place to handle
> the query of ClassPortInfo, caching results, invalidating cache on
> client-reregister, etc.

Yes, but there is no requirement for client reregistration being
supported on the SM side so I think there is more than this that is
needed (at least in theory).

-- Hal

>  - R.