On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Jason Gunthorpe<jguntho...@obsidianresearch.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 11:54:13AM -0400, Hal Rosenstock wrote: > >> I think it depends on the interpretation of "If redirection is not being >> performed, this shall be set to zero." in the RedirectGID description >> as to whether it is referring to redirection in general or just GID >> redirection. > > ClassPortInfo is used for alot of things,
Of course. > I take that to mean that > when it is used in non-redirection contexts that RedirectGID can be 0. I took it to mean differently as there's some conflicting text in RedirectLID. > Clearly the only sane way this can work is if the GID is always > filled in for the redirection case. Why is that ? Why must the redirector provide GRH info when it's not required for subnet local cases ? >> Futhermore, RedirectLID can be non zero but GID redirection is still >> being used as indicated by the RedirectLID description indicating that >> a non zero RedirectLID will in general not be valid. > > The spec says if it is not zero the requester shall use it. I don't > see an ambiguity here. To me, the ambiguity is several lines below it where it states that the RedirectLID might not be valid and says to obtain a PathRecord when RedirectGID is supplied rather than relying on the RedirectLID is non zero. -- Hal > Jason _______________________________________________ ewg mailing list ewg@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ewg
