[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 2/2] IB/IPoIB: Separate IB events to groups and handle each according to level of severity

Hal Rosenstock hrosenstock at xsigo.com
Thu May 22 08:17:57 PDT 2008


Roland,

On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 15:23 -0700, Roland Dreier wrote: 
> I see two issues with this patch:
> 
>  - Is is architecturally guaranteed by the IB spec that flushing unicast
>    info is not required on an SM change or client reregister event?

FWIW, here's my take on what the IBA spec says relative to this:

I don't think there's an issue with client reregister AFAIK. Client
registrations refer to subscriptions only.

SM change is another matter IMO and is not guaranteed as has been
pointed out in several earlier posts in this thread.

-- Hal




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