[ofa-general] Re: [PATCHv3] OpenSM/osm_sa_mcmember_record.c: Collapse all scopes when consolidating IPv6 SNM

Sasha Khapyorsky sashak at voltaire.com
Sat May 31 10:13:15 PDT 2008


On 08:48 Sat 31 May     , Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> 
> No, PREFIX_MASK is being changed to 0xff10ffff00000000ULL to:
> 1. eliminate the scope part, and
> 2. get the entire signature
> for subsequent comparison.
> 
> >  why PREFIX_SIGNATURE is needed? Am I missing something?
> 
> Because PREFIX_MASK masks the bits to compare and SIGNATURE is what it
> should be after masking.

I see. Then shouldn't it (mask) be 0xff10ffff0000ffffULL?

Sasha



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