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

[Yevgeny Kliteynik]

Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> 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 ?
>   

It's QoS annex rules only.

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

Sure, in partition cfg file ipoib has a special meaning.
But for QoS annex I treat both ipoib and just a pkey the same - I always 
check whether
this pkey belongs to an ipoib-capable partition and update SL in the 
mcast group.

-- Yevgeny

> -- Hal
>
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