Re: [PATCH] mlx4: properly mask MGM entry members count

Aleksey Senin
2010-11-25T07:13:30Z

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Eli Cohen <eli-LDSdmyG8hGV8YrgS2mwiifqBs+8SCbDb@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 09:38:47AM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
>>  > > Where is the change in handling in the members_count field?  In the firmware?
>>  > >
>>  > The firmware now distinguishes between differnet multicast addresses
>>  > according to a protocol field located in the high MS byte which
>>  > previously was reserved. The patches that Alekseys will will probably
>>  > send later make use of this.
>>
>> OK, so what you seem to be saying is that this patch is not fixing
>> anything until we add Alekseys patches?
>>
> It only keeps the code and the PRM in sync.
> --

RAW_ETH patches cannot be applied without it, so we really need this masking.
In addition, Yevgeny's mlx SRIOV patches
(http://marc.info/?l=linux-rdma&m=127619666403521&w=2 ),
also using this field - there are changes in find_mgm function.