Hi again Ofer, On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 11:14, Ofer Gigi wrote: > Hi Hal, > Sorry, I didn't see there are other questions below.... > > Here are the answers: > 1. Might 0x7fff be better in this case ? > As I said, currently all IB devices come up from reset with > preconfigured 0xffff key. Since we don't want to be inconsistent, we > decided to insert 0xffff.
In the long run, 0x7fff might be better for these ports. Making every port in the default full partition makes them accessible to everyone. > 2. Can you elaborate on any plans in this area as to timing and what > "full" > means ? > Since all IB devices come up from reset with 0xffff, and anyway, we > insert it when 0x7fff or 0xffff doesn't exist, currently all physical > ports belong to the same Pkey group, so there is no meaning to pkey > groups. > In the future, we would like to have a Pkey manager that will manage > different Pkey groups (that don't share the same pkeys) for the physical > ports. So what is there now just ensures the full (or limited) default partition is configured on every port where pkeys are supported. > 3. Can you elaborate on the testing ? > In the test, the following steps were done: > 1. Remove 0x7fff or 0xffff from all physical ports How is this step done ? > 2. Force full sweep. > 3. Verified that all physical ports have now 0xffff Thanks. -- Hal > Thanks! > Ofer _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
