On 8/3/2012 4:40 AM, Jack Morgenstein wrote: > When port pkey table potentially contains both full and partial > membership copies for the same pkey, we need a function to find > the exact (16-bit) pkey index. > > This is particularly necessary when the master forwards QP1 MADS > sent by guests. If the guest has sent the MAD with a limited > membership pkey, we wish to forward the MAD using the same limited > membership pkey. Since master may have both the limited and > the full member pkeys in its table, we must make sure to retrieve > the limited membership pkey in this case. > > This requires the 16-bit pkey lookup function (which includes the > membership bit).
As a second note, I would like to know why Intel (previously QLogic)
does not use these functions in their driver and what it would take to
get all drivers to use the functions. Do we need to add more to them?
In my opinion these should be generally useful and used by all drivers.
Mike?
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