[ofa-general] [PATCH] opensm/osm_pkey_mgr.c: setting only outbound partition enforcement on switch

[Sasha Khapyorsky]

Hi Hal,

On 07:00 Thu 27 Dec     , Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-12-25 at 14:29 +0200, Yevgeny Kliteynik wrote:
> > Fixing wrong setting of partition enforcement bits on switch ports.
> > When an HCA port is configured with a certain pkey, the peer port
> > on the switch should turn on outbound partition enforcement bit only.
> > Turning on the inbound enforcement will cause the switch to drop
> > valid packets if the HCA is partial member.
> 
> Inbound enforcement is actually the more useful case. If there is
> inbound enforcement, outbound enforcement doesn't add much.
> 
> In the case of partial only (not both partial and full) membership, the
> peer switch physical port would need to be set to full membership.

Then it could break outbound enforcement. Isn't it?

Sasha