[ewg] Re: [ofw] SC'09 BOF - Meeting notes

[Richard Frank]

> I am worried that no one has thought through all the issues and corner
> cases around address resolution, multicast, etc, and that when we do get
> a standardized version of IBoE, we'll have to break core APIs yet again.


Having lots of testing exposure can help in validating that all the edge 
cases are handled..

Are there a set of cases that you have in mind ?

Roland Dreier wrote:
>  > How can 1500 lines out of 240k lines be a big change.. do I have these
>  > numbers right - is the
>  > big change you are referring too?
>
> If there are significant changes to the core APIs -- and IBoE has
> exactly this impact -- then yes it can be a big change even if the line
> count is small.
>
>  > What is the risk area that you are worried about .. do you think it
>  > will break current
>  > transports or existing ULPs ?
>
> I am worried that no one has thought through all the issues and corner
> cases around address resolution, multicast, etc, and that when we do get
> a standardized version of IBoE, we'll have to break core APIs yet again.
>
>  - R.
>