On 08:20 Wed 20 Apr     , Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> 
> On 4/20/2011 8:08 AM, Alex Netes wrote:
> > Hi Hal,
> > 
> > On 11:00 Mon 11 Apr     , Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> >>
> >> alias GUIDs are those indicated in SM GUIDInfo attribute
> >> (other than index 0) and are created/removed via SA Set/Delete
> >> of GUIDInfoRecord per IBTA MgtWG errata RefIDs 4704-4706.
> >>
> >> Up to now, this attribute was unneeded by the SM as only base port
> >> GUIDs were supported (and are available from the SM NodeInfo attribute).
> >>
> >> In order to support alias GUIDs, a new alias GUID table is to be added
> >> indexed by alias GUID, each containing a pointer to the base port. The
> >> routines for creating and removing alias GUID table entries are added
> >> by this patch. Also, a pointer to the alias port GUIDs provided by the
> >> SM GUIDInfo attribute is added to the osm_physp_t structure.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Hal Rosenstock <[email protected]>
> >> ---
> >> diff --git a/include/opensm/osm_port.h b/include/opensm/osm_port.h
> >> index ee9feec..3433e31 100644
> >> --- a/include/opensm/osm_port.h
> >> +++ b/include/opensm/osm_port.h
> >> @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
> >>  /*
> >>   * Copyright (c) 2004-2009 Voltaire, Inc. All rights reserved.
> >> - * Copyright (c) 2002-2007 Mellanox Technologies LTD. All rights reserved.
> >> + * Copyright (c) 2002-2010 Mellanox Technologies LTD. All rights reserved.
> >>   * Copyright (c) 1996-2003 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
> >>   *
> >>   * This software is available to you under a choice of one of two
> >> @@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ struct osm_mgrp;
> >>  typedef struct osm_physp {
> >>    ib_port_info_t port_info;
> >>    ib_net64_t port_guid;
> >> +  ib_net64_t (*p_guids)[];
> > 
> > Can we use only one array for port guids? 
> 
> I'm not 100% sure what you mean. There's only one array above. Do you
> mean that port_guid could be removed ? If so, that's not the case
> because the p_guids array is only allocated when alias GUIDs are being
> used which is not the common case.

I haven't seen the use you make of p_guids in your patches yet. 
The initialization of port_guid is done in osm_physp_init(). I guess it's
possible to initialize p_guids[0] there instead of port_guid and use
p_guids[0] in every places port_guid is used.

> 
> > I guess port_guid would be always the first element of p_guids[].
> 
> Yes, port_guid will also be present at index 0 of p_guids array when the
> p_guids array is allocated.
> 
> -- Hal
> 
> > 
> > -- Alex
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