[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 1/2] opensm: Handle trap repress on trap 144 generation

Hal Rosenstock hal.rosenstock at gmail.com
Fri Mar 6 13:05:39 PST 2009


On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Sasha Khapyorsky <sashak at voltaire.com> wrote:
>> On 12:55 Fri 06 Mar     , Hal Rosenstock wrote:
>>>
>>> It could be subsequent patch but thought it best to include it. Do you
>>> want this separate ?
>>
>> Without clear usage case I would prefer to not have it at all - finally
>> it is on a fast path.
>
> It's the same as what is done in the kernel for MAD response but I
> removed it because I could see you were against this.
>
>>>
>>> > BR is not used anywhere in OpenSM.
>>>
>>> No, but someone might use ib_types.h to build BM.
>>
>> We cannot know what will be needed then - this someone will need to care
>> anyway.
>
> You could say that about a lot of things accepted which aren't fully integrated.
>
>>> > And this function which should process TrapRepress method does nothing,
>>> > right?
>>>
>>> Just some validation; It doesn't need to do anything (just retire the
>>> transaction).
>>
>> Then I don't understand - how is trap 144 repress handled? And why
>> those changes in trap_rcv_process_response() were needed?
>
> Perhaps it's being overly pendantic. I can revise the patch to not
> have the repress get this far.

I misread your comment. trap_rcv needs to cause the repress for the
trap to be generated.

-- Hal

> -- Hal
>
>> Sasha
>>
>



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