On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 10:34:09 -0700 Roland Dreier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sean> If the MAD is not consumed by the driver, the MAD > Sean> layer may update the MAD and call process_local_mad a second > Sean> time, correct? > > Sure, I guess so -- nothing should break if the MAD layer does this > (since the driver can't remember that it already saw the MAD). But > when do you see this being done? If the driver didn't handle the MAD > the first time around, it's unlikely to do anything different on the > second try (unless the MAD layer does something extreme like change > the attribute ID, and I can't think of a time when we'd do something > like that). I was thinking of DR MADs, that have several checks, plus updates to the hop_ptr. Are we talking about handing MADs to the driver immediately after it is received, or immediately before it would be dispatched to other clients? _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
