From bd8031b49a9b05933fb1ec1c36620ed4e1e67793 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hal Rosenstock Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:30:38 -0700 Subject: IB/umad: Clarify documentation of transaction ID Signed-off-by: Hal Rosenstock Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier --- Documentation/infiniband/user_mad.txt | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/infiniband') diff --git a/Documentation/infiniband/user_mad.txt b/Documentation/infiniband/user_mad.txt index 750fe5e80eb..8ec54b974b6 100644 --- a/Documentation/infiniband/user_mad.txt +++ b/Documentation/infiniband/user_mad.txt @@ -91,6 +91,14 @@ Sending MADs if (ret != sizeof *mad + mad_length) perror("write"); +Transaction IDs + + Users of the umad devices can use the lower 32 bits of the + transaction ID field (that is, the least significant half of the + field in network byte order) in MADs being sent to match + request/response pairs. The upper 32 bits are reserved for use by + the kernel and will be overwritten before a MAD is sent. + Setting IsSM Capability Bit To set the IsSM capability bit for a port, simply open the -- cgit v1.2.3