On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 11:06, Jack Morgenstein wrote: > On Tuesday 15 August 2006 17:42, Hal Rosenstock wrote: > > > > Are these two events equivalent ? e.g. does LID change require > > reregistration ? (That's a potential overhead as well). > > > > Before the change in mthca_mad.c (sm_snoop), the LID CHANGE event was > generated in all cases where a SET port-info MAD was received. > > After the change, either LID_CHANGE -- or -- CLIENT_REREGISTER is generated. > (i.e., CLIENT REREGISTER replaced LID_CHANGE in those cases where the > reregistration bit was set in the MAD). > > This patch simply restores the previous behavior of the sa_query and cache > modules in responding to events.
Understood but doesn't it also has the effect of doing more than this for certain cases of Set PortInfo ? > No reregistration is required in these modules. Currently but I think it is a possibility in the future. -- Hal > > What about deregistration of the old registrations when this occurs ? > > Is that handled ? > > > There is no deregistration involvement. > > - Jack _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list openib-general@openib.org http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
