[ofa-general] Re: {PATCH] Documentation/user_mad.txt: Clarify transaction ID usage
Roland Dreier
rdreier at cisco.com
Wed Apr 11 14:02:26 PDT 2007
> +Transaction IDs
> +
> + Clients of the MAD layer can use the lower 32 bits of the
> + transaction ID field to track mad request/response pairs. The
> + upper 32 bits are reserved for use by the kernel ib_mad module.
This is a good addition. But I think it would be worth saying which
half of the TID is the lower half. I would fix it up myself but I
don't know off the top of my head which byte order the TID is
interpreted with.
- R.
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