[ofa-general] [PATCHv4 01/10] ib_core: Refine device personality from node type to port type

[Eli Cohen]

On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 10:34:19AM -0700, Sean Hefty wrote:
> 
> Does the implementation allow this?  Right now PDs, CQs, etc are allocated per
> device, not per port.  I'm not immediately concerned about QP failover.
> However, I believe there needs to be some level of coordination between the
> Infiniband side of the CM and the Ethernet side of the CM, since QPs are
> associated with CA GUIDs.  I'm just trying to understand the impact of this
> coordination.
> 

There is nothing in the implementation to prevent it. We did not see a
reason to. The ports share a common node GUID but each one has its own
GIDs.