[openib-general] ipoib & the partial pkey

[Or Gerlitz]

Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 05:48, Or Gerlitz wrote:

>> Just to have us agree on the quote, it is from section 4 of rfc 4392 
>> (page 14) eg in http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4392.txt

>>> at the time of creating an IB multicast group, multiple values such as the
>>> P_Key, Q_Key, Service Level, Hop Limit, Flow ID, TClass, MTU, etc.  have to be
>>> specified.  These values should be such that all potential members of the IB
>>> multicast group are able to communicate with one another when using them.

>> OK, I suggest to remove this spec limitation,

> IMO you would need to get the IB spec changed first in order to do this.

do you refers to this?

> What about the description og P_Key in MCMemberRecord (table 210 on p.
> 908 which is compliance) which states:
> 
> "All members of the multicast group shall have full membership in the
> partition indicated by the partition key."

if yes, indeed, this also has to be changed.

Or.