Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Apr 2018 08:49:30 -0600 | From | Jason Gunthorpe <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] IB/core: Make ib_mad_client_id atomic |
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On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 10:16:18PM +0300, jackm wrote:
> > > TIDs need to be globally unique on the entire machine.
> Jason, that is not exactly correct.
The expecation for /dev/umad users is that they all receive locally unique TID prefixes. The kernel may be OK to keep things port-specific but it is slightly breaking the API we are presenting to userspace to allow them to alias..
Jason
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