On 7/6/2011 2:45 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 02:24:59PM -0400, Hal Rosenstock wrote: > >>> Vendor specific stuff must be placed into a vendor specific class and >>> not put into the classes controlled by IBA. >> >> Either that or modify that compliance to allow for (optional) vendor >> specific attributes in the PerfMgt class as is already done for the SM >> class. > > Just adding vendor usable attributes doesn't really address the > problem of discoverability. With the SM class it is at least > imaginable there is some kind of out of band discovery before the > attributes are used, can't see that for PM.
There are other ways to deal with this issue IMO. Moving it to a vendor class doesn't make the issue necessarily go away either. > Plus, there is no defined SMP vendor specific MAD, only GMP, True. > so it makes a little more sense.. I think it could be done either way. -- Hal > Jason > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
