On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 14:55, Roland Dreier wrote: > Hal> Hi Roland, I have a port which only has the full default > Hal> partition configured but ifconfig allows an IPoIB interface > Hal> with a PKey which is not in the Pkey table. Shouldn't the > Hal> ifconfig fail for this (rather than the subsequent ping) ? > > No, I don't think so. The philosophy of the IPoIB driver is to allow > configuration to be done before the IB port is fully ready. This > allows for things such as boot scripts configuring interfaces before > the SM has brought the port up. Otherwise you end up in a situation > where a system may come up without network interfaces configured, just > because of a transient timing issue during boot.
Are the joins for those IPoIB interfaces deferred until the PKey table is initialized ? If they aren't deferred, should they be ? -- Hal _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
