On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:33 PM, Sasha Khapyorsky <[email protected]> wrote: > On 18:21 Tue 17 Feb , Hal Rosenstock wrote: >> > >> > For utilities which run once through I think the old functions work just >> > fine. >> >> Well, sort of... Aren't mad_portid "collisions" possible when multiple >> programs are run concurrently ? > > No.
With the old API, mad_portid can be overwritten by another process or thread. Another thread is not an expected use case but it is possible. >> > However, it is pretty confusing which interface to use... [or even that >> > there >> > are 2 interfaces, but I digress] (see below) >> >> I don't think the newer improved interfaces were ever documented. > > The old interfaces were not documented too. So it is at least consistent > :). There are no man pages but there is a doc (libibmad.txt) which is somewhat out of date as it was never updated for the new interfaces. -- Hal > Sasha _______________________________________________ general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
