[ofa-general] some comments/clarifications on ipoib/opensm re qos

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 17:47 +0200, Yevgeny Kliteynik wrote:
> Or Gerlitz wrote:

> >> This rule is also valid, providing that you actually have a partition
> >> with pkey 0x8001 configured in the partition cfg file.
> > OK, so the rule is valid, but would you agree that the word "ipoib" 
> > adds nothing to the rule?
> 
> Agree, it's just an alias.
>  'ipoib : <SL>' is useful
>  'any, pkey 0xNNNN' is useful too.
>  'ipoib, pkey 0xNNNN' is just for better readability of the matching rules.

What rule(s) are being discussed here ? QoS annex rules only ? QoS annex
rules in concert with partition rules ? partition rules only ?

AFAIK, ipoib keyword has a specific useful meaning to OpenSM (apart from
SL).

-- Hal