[openib-general] [PATCH] librdmacm: fix bug causing failure to work with partial membership pkey
Or Gerlitz
ogerlitz at voltaire.com
Wed Feb 21 00:48:47 PST 2007
>> Yes. Its a little bit confusing: partial and full members of an IPoIB IB
>> partition use the same MGID. When an IPoIB MGID is constructed, the pkey
>> placed by the driver is --always-- the full membership one. However, on
>> a node with partial membership, what's plugged into the QP is the pkey
>> index of the partial instance...
> So in this case, do both the full and partial keys need configuring for
> that port ?
No. The SM configures --either-- the full or the partial pkey.
However, no matter what the SM configures, the core & ipoib code act as
the full pkey is there. This is nice simplification and it works well.
Or.
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