[ofa-general] ***SPAM*** ibdm network topology format

[Sasha Khapyorsky]

Hi Hal,

On 07:08 Wed 08 Oct     , Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> 
> The question was whether you are sure that class 0x81 is not being
> registered with ibdiagnet ? Was this actually verified at some level
> rather than code inspection of ibutils ? Just to be sure...

Yes of course, umad2sim catches all application's ioctl()s...

Sasha

> >> That's the first thing to confirm or maybe you've already confirmed
> >> this and it wasn't clear to me in what you wrote. If so, I have a
> >> theory about what could be occuring. It may be the case that it is an
> >> effect of the kernel MAD layer in that a MAD agent can send any class
> >> and when using request/response it matches on transaction ID which
> >> contains the MAD agent. Unsolicited messages on that other class
> >> wouldn't get through though. I just ran a simple test of this and that
> >> appears to be the case.
> >
> > This could explain the phenomena. And then it seems that similar
> > mechanism should be implemented in umad2sim.
> 
> Yes.
> 
> -- Hal
> 
> > Sasha
> >