[ofa-general] Bugs in opensm/libvendor

[Sasha Khapyorsky]

Hi again, Hal,

On 11:03 Mon 15 Dec     , Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Sasha Khapyorsky <sashak at voltaire.com> wrote:
> > On 09:29 Mon 15 Dec     , Mike Heinz wrote:
> >>
> >> That's a good question - and I'm going to ask around and double check.
> >> My first reaction was that you have to specify how many paths you want
> >> from the query - but you're right, the spec doesn't say that.
> >
> > Yes, it looks like this (but I cannot understand "why" :( ).
> 
> The spec says this (for GetTable) and Gets are requests for 1 path.
> The reason is to limit the amount of returned path records (and the
> field limits to 255 records in the response).

Do you know what is a reason for this "127 records" limitation?

> >But even more
> > strange (IMHO) limitation is mandatory SGID - actually it should make
> > illegal such GetTable queries as all-to-all, SLID-to-all, etc.. I
> > thought that it is permitted.
> 
> It was decided to force SGID. Neither All to all nor SLID to all by
> itself are spec'd (you could could add SGID along with SLID to all
> though). Support for those is a proprietary OpenSM extension which is
> used for testing at least (and also by saquery command).

Ok. Not a bad extension IMHO :)

Sasha