On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 02:28, Or Gerlitz wrote: > Hal Rosenstock wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 15:45, Or Gerlitz wrote: > >> On 21 Feb 2007 08:20:23 -0500, Hal Rosenstock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> If the IPoIB spec does not allow both partial and full members of a > >> partition to share a broadcast domain (eg the IPv4 broadcast group > >> associated with the full membership pkey) or any other multicast > >> group, burn it (or at least the relevant section). > > > I was referring to the IB spec, not an IPoIB RFC. > > Can you provide a pointer?
See MCMemberRecord:P_Key description in table 210 (p. 908). > >> The OpenIB code supposed to work and as done with the RDMA CM header, > >> the implementation should not wait for spec to be written or changed. > > > Really ? Maybe I'm mistaken but I didn't think that OpenIB/OpenFabrics > > wanted to issue code which is not IBA spec compliant. > > The code resides in the Linux kernel, period. Linux is not under the > control of this or that organization, period, period. Linux uses an > hierarchic maintainship structure where Roland, Sean and yourself are > listed as the maintainers, which means you are able to promote and/or > block this or that agenda, go for it! OpenIB claims IBA compliance (currently mostly v1.2) and is there any good reason that we shouldn't continue to adhere to this ? -- Hal > Or. _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
